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by irrational 2406 days ago
It's useful for people new to Postgres, since many of these things are particular to Postgres.
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Not really. Most is pretty well standard SQL (CTE optimisation fence pre PG12 being one exception, and there are a couple more, but really it's mostly standard stuff).
The :: syntax for CAST() is also a psql-ism.
Maybe that is what it is now, but I still have muscle memory using it in Informix.
Maybe. I come from the Oracle world and the majority of these don't apply to Oracle.