Re: ANY GOOD USER'S GUIDE ONLINE?? (with simple examples)

On Thu, 21 Feb 2002, paul simdars wrote:

> I am trying to get started with Postgres but it ain't easy.  The
> documentation, although it may be thorough and very exhaustive, doesn't
> have much of practical value in it.  I looked in a FAQ which came with
> the download -- again, not much useful there unless you wanted to write a
> dissertation.  Then I found a 'User's Guide' and thought, "Of course, I
> have been looking a 'documentation', which, when you think about it, has
> done a great job of docmenting, but a 'User's Guide', that's what I've
> been looking for!"
> Well, it wasn't a real user's guide.  I have been able to find useful
> items here and there but you have to dig through so much information that
> the frustration gets very high.

> Like, I am looking for how to insert a timestamp when a record has been
> updated.  I have found the data type timestamp defined and documented in
> documentation, FAQ and 'User's Guide', but nowhere is there an example of
> how one would actually insert a timestamp into a record.
> Yes, I do have the question of the timestamp, but No that is not my main
> question.  My main question is this "does there exist a real User's Guide
> in postgres-land, with actual examples of how to IMPLEMENT all this
> beautifully docmented material?"

You may want to check techdocs.postgresql.org (For the particular question
of timestamps, I'd say probably in the PostgreSQL Cookbook.