am Mon, dem 24.11.2008, um 9:02:37 -0500 mailte Tom Lane folgendes: > Andrew Dunstan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Dave Page wrote: > >> It might also be useful to create such a database at initdb time so > >> newbies have something interesting to look at right away. > > > No, there is no need to clutter every installation in the world with > > such a database. You could make it an addon module, or a pgfoundry project. > > The whole thing strikes me as extreme overkill, not to mention a > misunderstanding of what an example is supposed to be for. If we're > going to insist that every example in the docs work when > copied-and-pasted into an empty database, then simple and to-the-point > examples will be history. Instead of one-liners we'll have clutter.
For a beginner, a "relation 'foo' does not exist" is a clean message, but a "function foo() does not exist" from an example in the doc are a real problem. And, in this example in my first post, the call to the nonexistent function are neither necessary nor 'to-the-point' to explain a for-loop. The starting point for my post was a real question on IRC today. Someone was really confused because he tried to use this nonexistent funktion to log something into a log-file. I think, this example can rewritten, either without this funktion-call or with raise notice ... Regards, Andreas -- Andreas Kretschmer Kontakt: Heynitz: 035242/47150, D1: 0160/7141639 (mehr: -> Header) GnuPG-ID: 0x3FFF606C, privat 0x7F4584DA http://wwwkeys.de.pgp.net -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
