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Re:PostgreSQL Exercises by nik736 on Wednesday December 06, 2017 @06:20AM (#15860248)
Great idea, does what it should and can be extended to cover a lot more. Keep up the great work.

First time looking at it I thought I was on a official Ubuntu site, what a font and color can do to a branding is fascinating.

Re:PostgreSQL Exercises by 2T1Qka0rEiPr on Wednesday December 06, 2017 @07:07AM (#15860480)
Well, it is using the Ubuntu font! https://pgexercises.com/css/site.css
Re:PostgreSQL Exercises by AlisdairO on Wednesday December 06, 2017 @10:33AM (#15861812)
Yeah, I have zero design sense and just went with the defaults of a bootswatch theme that I liked :-)
Re:PostgreSQL Exercises by nik736 on Wednesday December 06, 2017 @03:50PM (#15864853)
Yes, I know, that's what I am talking about. ;-)

That's exactly what good branding looks like!

Re:PostgreSQL Exercises by AlisdairO on Wednesday December 06, 2017 @10:40AM (#15861883)
Author here: out of curiosity, what would be your priorities for future exercises? Right now my list looks roughly like:

    - DDL
    - Advanced datatypes (JSON, arrays, etc)
    - GIS
This order is partly informed by the current support of the site: adding DDL exercises is a relatively minor bit of technical work, and then it's just writing. Everything else involves schema changes (or, possibly, a second database).
Re:PostgreSQL Exercises by snowplay on Saturday December 09, 2017 @12:19AM (#15884441)
First, I appreciate the work you've done. Great stuff. Thanks.

Second, I don't imagine these topics fit well with the exercise based course material, but they are of interest to me:

Window Functions, Logic in the database vs in the code, Serialization, Normalization vs Denormalization, Object Relational Mapping, Concurrency & Transactions, Triggers

Re:PostgreSQL Exercises by AlisdairO on Saturday December 09, 2017 @11:49PM (#15889982)
Glad you've found it useful! FWIW window functions are already covered in the Aggregation section.

The rest of it, yeah, as you say it's not so great a fit.

Re:PostgreSQL Exercises by aargh_aargh on Wednesday December 06, 2017 @12:13PM (#15862793)
The order sounds reasonable - IMHO it correlates with the number of users who need that area of knowledge.