From: Scott Marlowe <smarlowe@g2switchworks.com>
To: David Fetter <david@fetter.org>
Cc: Jim Nasby <jnasby@pervasive.com>
Cc: Oisin Glynn <me@oisinglynn.com>
Cc: pgsql general <pgsql-general@postgresql.org>
Cc: PostgreSQL Docs <pgsql-docs@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] COPY command documentation
Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2006 14:14:17 -0600
Message-ID: <1143144857.17999.89.camel@state.g2switchworks.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060323201250.GC6106@fetter.org>
References: <4422B9F8.60100@oisinglynn.com>
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<20060323201250.GC6106@fetter.org>
On Thu, 2006-03-23 at 14:12, David Fetter wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 23, 2006 at 07:00:13PM +0100, Jim Nasby wrote:
> > On Mar 23, 2006, at 4:08 PM, Oisin Glynn wrote:
> >
> > >I just discovered that the comments from 8.0 had the answer I was
> > >looking for but these comments are not in the 8.1 docs. Should the
> > >comments be rolled forward as new versions are created? Or if valid
> > >comments added to the docs themselves?
> > >
> > >http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.1/interactive/sql-copy.html
> > >
> > >http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.0/interactive/sql-copy.html
> >
> > No, comments don't roll forward.
>
> ...and it's unlikely that they will, now or later, without somebody
> whose whole job is to monitor those comments and make patches.
>
> I'd like to make a Modest Proposalâ„¢: Let's take down the interactive
> documents and, in their place, put up a request that doc patches be
> sent to -docs.
Heck, why not a form that does it for somebody, takes their email
address, and possibly even enrolls them in the -docs newsgroup. It
can't be that hard to code up.
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