On Wed, 3 Jan 2001, Lincoln Yeoh wrote:
Actually I agree with Eric.
The documentation is not as detailed or organised for usage. But it is
decent. Only sometimes you need to resort to real-life testing to see how
things really work. I do like the real world practical info which the MySQL
Then it goes right back to what someone else eluded to... If you don't
like what you see in the documentation, contribute. Send in diffs, or
even new items. If you don't know what's needed go to the DOCS list and
ask. Getting people to help with documentation for ANY project is like
What a horrible chicken and egg scenario... you can't help with providing
documentation until you have some deal of experience with something, but if
you ask for better documentation to get that experience, you are told to
write some. I understand the frustration, but at the same time, please
Eric Mueller writes:
I'm baffled by what seems to be a lack of detailed documentation for
something so fundamental as the built-in functions.
Just to add a particular point, in addition to Vince's excellent general
points, as the one who was last to update the function documentation:
The
On Wed, 3 Jan 2001, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
I'm baffled by what seems to be a lack of detailed documentation for
something so fundamental as the built-in functions.
Just to add a particular point, in addition to Vince's excellent general
points, as the one who was last to update the
, 2001 9:33 AM
To: Eric Mueller
Cc: 'PostgreSQL general mailing list'
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] RE: RE: Re: MySQL and PostgreSQL speed compare
Eric Mueller writes:
I'm baffled by what seems to be a lack of detailed documentation for
something so fundamental as the built-in functions.
Just to add
