Re: [HACKERS] Tutorial

David Fetter <david@fetter.org> writes:
> On Fri, Jul 23, 2004 at 04:30:40PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>> If we're going to remove from the tutorial every feature for which
>> any aspect is deemed by someone to be broken, the tutorial is liable
>> to become quite short.

> Are there other pieces that are broken?

Between the locale behavior and the trailing-spaces behavior, one could
make the case that the entire set of textual datatypes are broken.
Other examples will occur to your thought if you follow pgsql-bugs.

My point here is that one man's unusably broken feature may be another
man's quite useful feature.  Postgres is a work in progress, and
probably always will be.  I don't object to pointing out shortcomings,
but removing all mention of a feature because it has some shortcomings
seems not the best way.

            regards, tom lane