Re: What do you think?

On Sat, 06 May 2000, Jurgen Defurne wrote:
> In the documentation, you absolutely can't find any reference to this
> numeric datatype, but as these people pointed out to me, it DOES
> exist.. This probably means that one should search through the code
> or of course ask on the mailing list. If you work on a job with a
> good internet connection, that is fine. But if you work on a job where
> people (for security reasons) do not want to give easy access to the
> Internet, you need damn good manuals. Searching through source
> code of an application is not part of a production programmers job.
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Its all documented at www.postgresql.org in the information area. Look for the
Integrated document, which you can also download. Its nicely formatted HTML
documentation.

All of this documentation comes with the source code. You have to remember to
install it:

cd usr/local/src/postgresql-7.0
cd doc
make install

This will put it somewhere like /usr/local/pgsql/doc/{user,postgres,
programmer, tutorial}

Also, remember to add /usr/local/pgsql/man to your $MANPATH.
See man/{man1,manl}.

Robert B. Easter
reaster(at)comptechnews(dot)com