Re: puzzled by the docs

From: "Bryan White" <bryan(at)arcamax(dot)com>
To: "Karl F(dot) Larsen" <k5di(at)zianet(dot)com>, "Hernan Gonzalez" <hgonzal(at)sinectis(dot)com(dot)ar>
Cc: <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: puzzled by the docs
Date: 2000-06-27 18:03:00
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> I suggest you not worry too much about versions when using the
> on-line docs. The doc's are ALWAYS for an earlier version. But they work
> fine on a later version. Nothing much has changed from SQL92 which is 8
> years old now.
>
> If you learn to write good code with SQL92 it will run fine on
> postgres AND other database.

Huh? The on-line docs cover more that just SQL. In particular the question
being discussed had to do with log file formating.

Also I don't know what is exactly in SQL92 but I don't think Postgres fully
implements it yet. For example I presume that SQL92 includes outer joins,
Postgres does not (yet). At some point it will. It would be a bad idea to
assume that SQL92 complient code documented in say v8.0 would work on a 7.0
database.

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