Re: alternative DB locations

This has discussed before (I brougt it up) and there was talks of using
the http://openacs.org/ site to do this. But I don't think there has
happened anything on that matter.

I think we should either use the openACS site, or write our own
extension of the manual in PHP.

Poul L. Christiansen

Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>
> Jeff Hoffmann writes:
>
> > has someone brought up the "annotated documentation" format like
> > that's used on the php web site? i think it's an excellent
> > combination of documentation, FAQ, and hints that makes it a lot
> > easier to find answers than the standard "RTFM - read FAQ - search
> > mailing lists".
>
> As a PHP user I find that kind of helpful, because the PHP documentation
> is really bad, or at least it was last time I looked.
>
> As a PostgreSQL documentation writer I don't think this is such a good
> idea. It would create all kinds of alternative, unchecked,
> non-authorative information that would be distributed under the official
> PostgreSQL banner.
>
> If users have a suggestion, correction, or improvement for the
> documentation, all they have to do is write us and someone will surely
> integrate it.
>
> Additionally, I imagine a number of technical and logistical problems with
> this. The documentation is organized logically into chapters, sections,
> etc., not in terms of HTML pages. Other formats (ps, pdf, dvi, man) would
> not carry the benefit of these annotations. Even just a new stylesheet
> for HTML might invalidate the whole database.
>
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> Peter Eisentraut peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net http://yi.org/peter-e/