| From: | Gavin Sherry <swm(at)linuxworld(dot)com(dot)au> |
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| To: | Scott Lamb <slamb(at)slamb(dot)org> |
| Cc: | pgsql-advocacy(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: postgresql documentation iimprovements |
| Date: | 2002-12-19 01:34:09 |
| Message-ID: | Pine.LNX.4.21.0212191232530.1016-100000@linuxworld.com.au |
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On Wed, 18 Dec 2002, Scott Lamb wrote:
> Gavin Sherry wrote:
> > On Tue, 17 Dec 2002, Merlin Moncure wrote:
> >>2. IMHO, The documentation for create rule is not clear and detailed
> >>enough. PHPfreaks.com has a very nice tutorial about this command and
> >>how it could be used in a production database. It is very important for
> >>usage of this command to be clear, because only postgres has it, and
> >
> > FWIW Oracle and other databases have rules.
>
> This didn't sound right, so I just checked. The Oracle docs do not
> mention "create rule". Google says Microsoft Transact SQL has a "create
> rule", but it's not at all the same: a really, really old syntax for
> check constraints or something. Only still there for backwards
> compatibility.
Hah. You're right. Its been a long year...
Gavin
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