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PostgreSQL Server Programming - Second Edition

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PostgreSQL Server Programming - Second Edition

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (21 chapters)
PostgreSQL Server Programming Second Edition
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Predictability


This section could just as well have been titled standards compliance, but I decided against it because the benefits of standards compliance in corporate projects are not obvious. The limitations of the common databases are well-documented, and I will show you a few websites in a moment where you can make a comparison of who has the most unintended behavior. I will encourage you to read the following material while thinking about the question, "Which method of feature development is most likely to make my application break in the future?":

Note

Spoiler alert:

A stricter adherence to standards comes at the cost of not allowing ambiguous behavior. Not allowing ambiguous behavior makes the developer's life more difficult. Making the developer's life more difficult ensures that the interpretation of the commands that the developer gives will not change later, breaking the application.

Just...