Re: Railroad diagrams, a-la sqlite

On 17 July 2010 21:23, Dave Page <dpage@pgadmin.org> wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 9:19 PM, Thom Brown <thombrown@gmail.com> wrote:
>> While they're quite attractive, I actually see them being more
>> confusing than helpful personally, but I could be wrong.  I reckon
>> there might be clearer ways of representing statement options.  The
>> real problems with the railroad design come when there are lots of
>> references to other diagrams, and you end up with about 10 just for 1
>> statement.
>>
>> Is there a way of testing their usefulness?
>
> Personal experience? I used to find them quite useful when I was
> starting out with Informix.
>

I guess I'm quite used to the existing statement definitions.  It's an
elegant idea, just wondering if it scales sanely.  Are the examples of
more complex statements?

Thom