Re: [DOCS] Railroad diagrams, a-la sqlite
On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 10:30:13AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > Steve Atkins writes: > > Has everyone seen the "railroad diagrams" sqlite use in their docs? > > http://www.sqlite.org/lang_createindex.html , as one example. > > They look great for simple cases, but I can't imagine them being very > useful for SELECT, as an example. You mean like these from Oracle? http://is.gd/dya2n In general, looking at those diagrams irritates me, but I think that's mostly because Oracle's documentation irritates me generally. The SELECT version speicifically is probably not terribly useful, IMO. -- Joshua Tolley / eggyknap End Point Corporation http://www.endpoint.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: [DOCS] Railroad diagrams, a-la sqlite
On 19 July 2010 15:59, Joshua Tolley wrote: > On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 10:30:13AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote: >> Steve Atkins writes: >> > Has everyone seen the "railroad diagrams" sqlite use in their docs? >> > http://www.sqlite.org/lang_createindex.html , as one example. >> >> They look great for simple cases, but I can't imagine them being very >> useful for SELECT, as an example. > > You mean like these from Oracle? http://is.gd/dya2n > > In general, looking at those diagrams irritates me, but I think that's mostly > because Oracle's documentation irritates me generally. The SELECT version > speicifically is probably not terribly useful, IMO. > That page is an abomination! Do they hate their users? Thom -- Sent via pgsql-docs mailing list ([email protected]) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-docs
Re: [DOCS] 9.0 beta 3 pgbench -- documentation issue
Josh Berkus wrote: However, in the documentation the variable :scale is never set, resulting in it defaulting to 1. The example script needs to start with: \set scale 10 Look at table F-15 "pgbench benchmarking options", specifically the section for "-s scale_factor". That describes how the scale is set for the internal tests, and that you need to set it manually using "-s " for custom scripts run using "-f
