Re: man pages

From: David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, PG Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: man pages
Date: 2009-10-12 01:36:20
Message-ID: 20091012013620.GE14810@fetter.org
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On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 09:18:20PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> writes:
> > As for builtin functions, I think that's going to be a very hard
> > sell.
>
> Fresh out of the box, there are 2227 entries in pg_proc as of CVS
> HEAD. I don't see making a man page for each one as being a useful
> activity ...

How about a man page with all of them (or main sections of them) and a
bunch of symbolic links, as with *printf?

Cheers,
David.
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