Re: Views, views, views! (long)

Robert Treat <xzilla@users.sourceforge.net>

From: Robert Treat <xzilla@users.sourceforge.net>
To: andrew@supernews.com
Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2005-05-06T03:27:43Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On Thursday 05 May 2005 19:17, Andrew - Supernews wrote:
> On 2005-05-05, "Greg Sabino Mullane" <greg@turnstep.com> wrote:
> furthermore, writing the views has often required
> delving into details of the backend implementation that are not well
> documented. (See a recent discussion here on typmods for an example.)

This argument at least is a red herring.  The answer to a lack of 
documentation about a widget is never to build more widgets that hide the 
original widget and require more documentation, the answer is to better 
document the orginal widget. 

-- 
Robert Treat
Build A Brighter Lamp :: Linux Apache {middleware} PostgreSQL