mrotteveel
commented
3 years ago I moved this ticket from the documentation repository to the firebird repository, as this concerns what is included with a release.
The READMEs are primarily intended to bridge the gap when a language reference is not yet available.
For documentation of all functions, use the language reference, e.g. Firebird 3.0 Language Reference or Firebird 2.5 Language Reference.
Submitted by: @livius2
Now description of builtin functions are splitted between separate documents
README.builtin_functions.txt README.substring_similar.txt README.regr_functions.txt README.statistical_functions.txt README.window_functions.txt README.case README.case.txt README.coalesce README.coalesce.txt README.current_time README.current_time.txt README.iif README.length README.length.txt README.list README.list.txt README.nullif README.nullif.txt README.similar_to.txt README.trim README.trim.txt README.iif.txt
Better will be add "links" to this functions into README.builtin_functions.txt
like e.g. : STDDEV_SAMP - look into README.statistical_functions.txt
Why in this way? simply Ctrl+F in notepad. One place with full list. Understandable for new users but not only for them, for me too.
I suppose that some of above files can be merged. Also please document existing functions not documented already like Extract(Year ...