Re: order of entries in admin docs

From: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
Cc: Scott Marlowe <scott(dot)marlowe(at)gmail(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, pgsql-docs(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: order of entries in admin docs
Date: 2008-05-07 21:34:47
Message-ID: 200805072134.m47LYlY16758@momjian.us
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Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> > > Perhaps it would be better to have prose explaining all the stuff
> > > structured like Scott proposes, and make the postgresql.conf be just a
> > > reference linking to that. I don't think making postgresql.conf be the
> > > primary documentation is very nice.
> >
> > So you are suggesting splitting out the postgresql.conf content into its
> > relevant sections and just linking to it? That would work.
>
> Yes, or something like that. I don't think leaving _just_ the links on
> the postgresql.conf would be enough. But a comprehensive, verbose
> explanation should be elsewhere; a short blurb and the link would remain
> on the postgresql.conf reference.

Yea, that's certainly possible, though right now we pretty much have
_all_ the information about each configuration value in one place. We
would lose that. Looking at the connection postgresql.conf docs:

http://developer.postgresql.org/pgdocs/postgres/runtime-config-connection.html

There isn't much additional text except a description of each item.

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