X-Original-To: pgsql-docs-postgresql.org@localhost.postgresql.org Received: from localhost (av.hub.org [200.46.204.144]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DFD0F9DC84E; Thu, 23 Mar 2006 16:14:23 -0400 (AST) Received: from postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (av.hub.org [200.46.204.144]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 19481-04; Thu, 23 Mar 2006 16:14:24 -0400 (AST) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey- X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey- Received: from exchange.g2switchworks.com (mail.g2switchworks.com [63.87.162.25]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B449C9DC9C9; Thu, 23 Mar 2006 16:14:20 -0400 (AST) Received: from 10.10.1.37 ([10.10.1.37]) by exchange.g2switchworks.com ([10.10.1.2]) with Microsoft Exchange Server HTTP-DAV ; Thu, 23 Mar 2006 20:14:17 +0000 Received: from state.g2switchworks.com by mail.g2switchworks.com; 23 Mar 2006 14:14:17 -0600 Subject: Re: [GENERAL] COPY command documentation From: Scott Marlowe To: David Fetter Cc: Jim Nasby , Oisin Glynn , pgsql general , PostgreSQL Docs In-Reply-To: <20060323201250.GC6106@fetter.org> References: <4422B9F8.60100@oisinglynn.com> <483F344B-FF17-4DC5-8922-775213566788@pervasive.com> <20060323201250.GC6106@fetter.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <1143144857.17999.89.camel@state.g2switchworks.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.6 (1.4.6-2) Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2006 14:14:17 -0600 X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at hub.org X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.143 required=5 tests=[AWL=0.142, UNPARSEABLE_RELAY=0.001] X-Spam-Score: 0.143 X-Spam-Level: X-Archive-Number: 200603/35 X-Sequence-Number: 3492 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: > >=20 > > >I just discovered that the comments from 8.0 had the answer I was =20 > > >looking for but these comments are not in the 8.1 docs. Should the =20 > > >comments be rolled forward as new versions are created? Or if valid =20 > > >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 > >=20 > > No, comments don't roll forward. >=20 > ...and it's unlikely that they will, now or later, without somebody > whose whole job is to monitor those comments and make patches. >=20 > I'd like to make a Modest Proposal=C3=A2=E2=80=9E=C2=A2: 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.