On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 1:38 PM, Alvaro Herrera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A. Kretschmer wrote: > >> Okay, it is an argument. On the other side, it was a question today in >> the irc-channel (#postgresql) today, someone asked, why his funktion >> don't work. I think, such examples should not contain such code. It is >> not apparent that this function are not available. > > Perhaps the whole chapter could be improved if all the examples referred > to a set of tables and functions previously defined in the introduction > of the chapter. It would be good if the user could cut'n paste the code > and try it out directly, instead of having to reverse engineer the > tables/columns used for each example (and they're quite inconsistent). > Also, some examples give the complete code including CREATE FUNCTION and > others don't.
It might also be useful to create such a database at initdb time so newbies have something interesting to look at right away. -- Dave Page EnterpriseDB UK: http://www.enterprisedb.com -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
