What I Wish Someone Told Me About Postgres

Re:What I Wish Someone Told Me About Postgres by PhilippGille on Tuesday November 12, 2024 @08:14AM (#42115222)

I love the diagrams from the SQLite documentation: https://www.sqlite.org/syntaxdiagrams.html

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Re:What I Wish Someone Told Me About Postgres by christophilus on Tuesday November 12, 2024 @12:58PM (#42117916)

SQLite diagrams plus examples are pretty much the way I wish all of my documentation worked.

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Re:What I Wish Someone Told Me About Postgres by o11c on Tuesday November 12, 2024 @01:04PM (#42117975)

I've been bitten by those before because they are not generated from the actual syntax-parsing code, and thus are sometimes out of sync and wrong (or at least misleading).

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Re:What I Wish Someone Told Me About Postgres by teddyh on Tuesday November 12, 2024 @02:50PM (#42119000)

Those are commonly called “railroad diagrams”: <https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Syntax_diagram&ol...>

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