Re: puzzled by the docs

Bryan White <bryan@arcamax.com>

From: "Bryan White" <bryan@arcamax.com>
To: "Karl F. Larsen" <k5di@zianet.com>, "Hernan Gonzalez" <hgonzal@sinectis.com.ar>
Cc: <pgsql-general@postgresql.org>
Date: 2000-06-27T18:03:00Z
Lists: pgsql-general
>
> I suggest you not worry too much about versions when using the
> on-line docs. The doc's are ALWAYS for an earlier version. But they work
> fine on a later version. Nothing much has changed from SQL92 which is 8
> years old now.
>
> If you learn to write good code with SQL92 it will run fine on
> postgres AND other database.

Huh?  The on-line docs cover more that just SQL.  In particular the question
being discussed had to do with log file formating.

Also I don't know what is exactly in SQL92 but I don't think Postgres fully
implements it yet.  For example I presume that SQL92 includes outer joins,
Postgres does not (yet).  At some point it will.  It would be a bad idea to
assume that SQL92 complient code documented in say v8.0 would work on a 7.0
database.