	Hi,

	I think I finished the HOWTO that I've been writing far a couple days.
The HTML version is at http://www.brasileiro.net/roberto/howto. The
document expalins the basic differences from Oracle's PL/SQL to
PoltgreSQL's PL/pgSQL and how to port applications to Postgres. It comes
with several examples and the code for a port of Oracle's instr functions.
	I wrote it in standard DocBook and would be glad to give it to the PG
team if there's interest in including its whole or part in the
documentation. Just let me know who should I send it to.
	
	Another issue is that I'd like to revamp the PL/pgSQL main docs. The
way it is right is hard to find what you want because everything is buried
under the "Description" page. Plus the documentation could use _a lot_
more examples, especially of things that people use often, like "FOR ROW",
loops, etc.
	Would that be something the PG team would be interested in?

	Thoughts? 

	-Roberto

	P.S: Thanks so much for PG. I love it!
	
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Sat, 24 Feb 2001 17:37:30 -0700
Roberto Mello <rmello@cc.usu.edu>
PL/SQL-to-PL/pgSQL-HOWTO + PL/pgSQL documentation
Roberto Mello <rmello@cc.usu.edu> writes:
> 	I think I finished the HOWTO that I've been writing far a couple days.
> The HTML version is at http://www.brasileiro.net/roberto/howto. The
> document expalins the basic differences from Oracle's PL/SQL to
> PoltgreSQL's PL/pgSQL and how to port applications to Postgres. It comes
> with several examples and the code for a port of Oracle's instr functions.
> 	I wrote it in standard DocBook and would be glad to give it to the PG
> team if there's interest in including its whole or part in the
> documentation. Just let me know who should I send it to.

Thomas Lockhart is our lead documentation guy.
	
> 	Another issue is that I'd like to revamp the PL/pgSQL main docs. The
> way it is right is hard to find what you want because everything is buried
> under the "Description" page. Plus the documentation could use _a lot_
> more examples, especially of things that people use often, like "FOR ROW",
> loops, etc.
> 	Would that be something the PG team would be interested in?

Absolutely!  You betcha!  Go for it!

			regards, tom lane

Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:30:53 -0500
Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Re: PL/SQL-to-PL/pgSQL-HOWTO + PL/pgSQL documentation 
Roberto Mello writes:

> 	I wrote it in standard DocBook and would be glad to give it to the PG
> team if there's interest in including its whole or part in the
> documentation. Just let me know who should I send it to.

Send it to pgsql-docs@postgresql.org, either as a patch or as whatever you
have it.

-- 
Peter Eisentraut      peter_e@gmx.net       http://yi.org/peter-e/


Sun, 25 Feb 2001 12:54:45 +0100 (CET)
Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
Re: PL/SQL-to-PL/pgSQL-HOWTO + PL/pgSQL documentation