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Re:What I Wish Someone Told Me About Postgres by hobs on Tuesday November 12, 2024 @12:26PM (#42117562)
Railroad-esque diagrams can be weird but they say a lot in a very short space, I would highly recommend spending a little extra time working on thinking through them, they are everywhere!
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Re:What I Wish Someone Told Me About Postgres by Clubber on Tuesday November 12, 2024 @03:27PM (#42119382)
>Railroad-esque diagrams

Now and forever I will think of railroads when I see these.

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Re:What I Wish Someone Told Me About Postgres by hobs on Tuesday November 12, 2024 @04:39PM (#42120003)
Well, you should! But, I didn't invent anything there, that's what they are named :)

Syntax diagrams (or railroad diagrams) are a way to represent a context-free grammar. They represent a graphical alternative to Backus–Naur form, EBNF, Augmented Backus–Naur form, and other text-based grammars as metalanguages... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syntax_diagram

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