Re: [HACKERS] Questions on 7.0 for RPM building

> First, thanks to Peter Eisentraut for putting back pqbool -- I now can build
> Pg...
>
> Now, I have a few questions:
> 1.) What's the deal with the man pages now? In 6.5.x, src/man contained
> the man pages. (Then, in the 6.5.2 RPM's and later, an extra tarball of updated
> man pages was added on top of the existing ones). In 7.0, they are in
> doc/man.tar.gz -- however, there are many that are no longer there, unless I
> have overlooked them. Furthermore, while the command names destroy* have been
> changed to drop*, the man pages haven't changed. Also, the man3 section has
> disappeared. (I realize Thomas is busy with outer joins et al -- this is just
> a listing of what I've found -- I'm not by any means fussing...).

Thomas Lockhart generates man pages from SGML, but that usually happens
before final, not beta.

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