Re: Quick Reference Software Guide

On Tue, Jun 06, 2006 at 07:43:59PM -0300, Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> On Tue, 6 Jun 2006, Jim C. Nasby wrote:
>
> >On Tue, Jun 06, 2006 at 02:44:20PM -0700, Darcy Buskermolen wrote:
> >>
> >>so the output of \df ??
> >
> >I tend to find the output of \df pretty useless unless you already know
> >what the function you want is called.
>
> The neat 'chart' that the programming dept at the University I worked at
> had was a chart of system tables for Oracle, showing the
> inter-relationships between them ... just to add my 2c worth ...

There's actually a number of 'cheat sheets' that could be created.
System tables (though having something like newsysviews would probably
eliminate a lot of the need for that), system/stats views, function
reference, pl* reference, interface API references, etc.
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