| From: | Joshua Tolley <eggyknap(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Steve Atkins <steve(at)blighty(dot)com>, pgsql-docs <pgsql-docs(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Railroad diagrams, a-la sqlite |
| Date: | 2010-07-19 14:59:38 |
| Message-ID: | 4c44685c.17bb720a.5673.48c5@mx.google.com |
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On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 10:30:13AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Steve Atkins <steve(at)blighty(dot)com> 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
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