Re: PL/SQL-to-PL/pgSQL-HOWTO + PL/pgSQL documentation - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: PL/SQL-to-PL/pgSQL-HOWTO + PL/pgSQL documentation
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Msg-id 19460.983075453@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to PL/SQL-to-PL/pgSQL-HOWTO + PL/pgSQL documentation  (Roberto Mello <rmello@cc.usu.edu>)
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Roberto Mello <rmello@cc.usu.edu> writes:
>     I think I finished the HOWTO that I've been writing far a couple days.
> The HTML version is at http://www.brasileiro.net/roberto/howto. The
> document expalins the basic differences from Oracle's PL/SQL to
> PoltgreSQL's PL/pgSQL and how to port applications to Postgres. It comes
> with several examples and the code for a port of Oracle's instr functions.
>     I wrote it in standard DocBook and would be glad to give it to the PG
> team if there's interest in including its whole or part in the
> documentation. Just let me know who should I send it to.

Thomas Lockhart is our lead documentation guy.
>     Another issue is that I'd like to revamp the PL/pgSQL main docs. The
> way it is right is hard to find what you want because everything is buried
> under the "Description" page. Plus the documentation could use _a lot_
> more examples, especially of things that people use often, like "FOR ROW",
> loops, etc.
>     Would that be something the PG team would be interested in?

Absolutely!  You betcha!  Go for it!
        regards, tom lane


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