Re: MySQL versus Postgres - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Torsten Zühlsdorff
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In response to Re: MySQL versus Postgres  (John Gage <jsmgage@numericable.fr>)
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John Gage schrieb:

> On reflection, I think what is needed is a handbook that features cut
> and paste code to do the things with Postgres that people do today with
> MySQL.

Everyone of my trainees want such thing - for databases, for other
programming-languages etc. It's the worst thing you can give them. The<
will copy, they will paste and they will understand nothing. Learning is
the way to understanding, not copying.

Greetings,
Torsten
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