Re: Cognitive dissonance

Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> On l?r, 2010-06-12 at 09:10 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> > Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> writes:
> > > On l?r, 2010-06-12 at 11:18 +0200, John Gage wrote:
> > >> A one file html version would be a godsend.
> >
> > > I've committed a build target for that now. Use 'make postgres.html' in
> > > doc/src/sgml/.
> >
> > Huh, is that actually worth anything? How many browsers will open it
> > without crashing, or will navigate the page with decent performance
> > if they do manage to open it?
>
> Text output is generated by going through HTML. I haven't figured out
> the best way to do the second step yet. We use lynx for INSTALL and
> HISTORY, but the results for this big file aren't very clean.
>
> Browsers seem to handle the file OK, btw.

Well, I tried lynx and the output looked fine to me, so I applied the
attached patch to allow single-page text output. You can see the HTML
and text file results here:

http://momjian.us/expire/

The new rule name is postgres.txt. The file size are:

7,789,730 postgres.html
5,155,672 postgres.txt

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