From: | Thomas Lockhart <lockhart(at)alumni(dot)caltech(dot)edu> |
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To: | Mitch Vincent <mvincent(at)cablespeed(dot)com> |
Cc: | pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org, pgsql-docs(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: [GENERAL] Re: QUERY - Including the new LDP PostgreSQL HOWTO in the main PostgreSQL distribution |
Date: | 2001-07-11 01:53:58 |
Message-ID: | 3B4BB1B6.9050614B@alumni.caltech.edu |
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> > For a long time, I thougt HOWTO is docuement for "quick start". Isn't it?
> I'm not sure there is an understood meaning of what a HOWTO actually it.
> It's an explanation of how to do something, I guess... Generally I've found
> (as in your example) that it's putting software together and making it work,
> like Apache/SSL/Frontpage/something -- for that there is no single document
> that describes how to set it up. I really don't think the PostgreSQL
> installation guide could get much more simple -- why re-invent the wheel
> here?
To have adequate representation of PostgreSQL in the LDP docs set.
It may be sufficient to package the installation guide with some
Linux-specific FAQ information (which afaik is now obsolete and could be
freshened and moved to the SGML-based docs).
- Thomas
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