Re: Local postgres manual

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Ben Hancock <lists(at)benghancock(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Local postgres manual
Date: 2023-11-03 19:58:05
Message-ID: 3333527.1699041485@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Ben Hancock <lists(at)benghancock(dot)com> writes:
> I will say that, as the manual is quite large, a local GNU Info version
> would be great to be able to traverse different sections, etc, more
> easily. If that doesn't exist already, I wonder if a tool like `pandoc`
> could be employed to generate that.

That's exactly what the postgres.txt file Bruce mentioned is.

# single-page text
postgres.txt: postgres.html
$(PANDOC) -t plain -o $@ $<

These variant doc forms aren't terribly well (or at all) documented,
but the doc/src/sgml Makefile knows how to create a number of them.

regards, tom lane

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