On 19 July 2010 15:59, Joshua Tolley <eggyknap@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 10:30:13AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>> Steve Atkins <steve@blighty.com> writes:
>> > Has everyone seen the "railroad diagrams" sqlite use in their docs? http://www.sqlite.org/lang_createindex.html ,
asone example.
>>
>> They look great for simple cases, but I can't imagine them being very
>> useful for SELECT, as an example.
>
> You mean like these from Oracle? http://is.gd/dya2n
>
> In general, looking at those diagrams irritates me, but I think that's mostly
> because Oracle's documentation irritates me generally. The SELECT version
> speicifically is probably not terribly useful, IMO.
>
That page is an abomination! Do they hate their users?
Thom
