Re: Re: pg_dump docs

On Fri, 20 Oct 2000, Thomas Lockhart wrote:

> Vince Vielhaber wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, 19 Oct 2000, Thomas Lockhart wrote:
> >
> > > > > I don't see a reference from the developer's corner web page, which
> > > > > seems to point back to the released version instead.
> > > > That's strange... I see it :) ...now
> > >
> > > Great! But I don't, maybe due to caching somewhere? Should I be seeing
> > >
> > > http://www.postgresql.org/devel-corner/
> > > -> Current documentation
> > >
> > > pointing at
> > >
> > > http://www.postgresql.org/devel-corner/docs/index.html
> > >
> > > (afaik this index.html does not yet exist, but could point to the
> > > various flavors of pages and tarballs) rather than
> > >
> > > http://www.postgresql.org/docs/index.html
> > >
> > > which is what I see now?
> >
> > I thought /docs/index.html was to be for the current docs. Since they're
> > not, what ARE they pointing to?? Anyway, I've now got it pointing to
> > devel-contrib/docs/index.html and created an index. If you ever need to
> > update the index, look at the script makeindex in that directory.
>
> docs/index.html *are* the "current docs". They correspond to the current
> released version, which would be 7.0.x (though it is possible that no
> one updated them for 7.0.2).
>
> For developers (-hackers developers, not application developers using
> the current release), the "current docs" correspond to the docs built
> nightly (actually twice a day), which reflect the current development
> tree.

I see the problem. You're not of BSD and I was thinking you were. I'm
guessing Marc is catching on right now. To me, "current" means the
docs that correspond to the current (or development) code. The release
I refer to is either stable or (more appropriately) "release" docs.

Either way, I think I have things figured out now.

Vince.
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