Re: [HACKERS] Tutorial

On Fri, Jul 23, 2004 at 04:58:55PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> David Fetter <david@fetter.org> writes:
> > On Fri, Jul 23, 2004 at 04:30:40PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> >> If we're going to remove from the tutorial every feature for
> >> which any aspect is deemed by someone to be broken, the tutorial
> >> is liable to become quite short.
>
> > Are there other pieces that are broken?
>
> Between the locale behavior and the trailing-spaces behavior, one
> could make the case that the entire set of textual datatypes are
> broken.  Other examples will occur to your thought if you follow
> pgsql-bugs.
>
> My point here is that one man's unusably broken feature may be
> another man's quite useful feature.  Postgres is a work in progress,
> and probably always will be.  I don't object to pointing out
> shortcomings, but removing all mention of a feature because it has
> some shortcomings seems not the best way.

Fair enough.  How about adding an explanation of the limits of table
inheritance illustrated by that example (or other suitable one)?

Cheers,
D
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