Re: Nice Quote from Celko - Mailing list pgsql-advocacy

From Thomas Kellerer
Subject Re: Nice Quote from Celko
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In response to Re: Nice Quote from Celko  (Gavin Flower <GavinFlower@archidevsys.co.nz>)
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Gavin Flower, 24.09.2012 22:07:
> I have not checked everything, but noted that..
>
> It claims
> "[...]
> The model for temporary tables is weaker than T-SQL in some ways.
> You cannot create a temp table with column declarations, but only
> with a query
>
> this obviously false:

There is another wrong statement I noticed:


   Other Data Types

   Postgres also supports the BOOLEAN data type, which has the following characteristics:

   *   Does not support NULL values.


That of course is also not true.



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