Re: blatantly a bug in the documentation

On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 1:38 PM, Alvaro Herrera
<alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> 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.

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Dave Page
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