Subject: Re: Cognitive dissonance
From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
To: John Gage <jsmgage@numericable.fr>
Cc: PostgreSQL - General <pgsql-general@postgresql.org>
In-Reply-To: <29FD1BB6-9AD8-485C-B5D2-23D66C15DC97@numericable.fr>
References: <29FD1BB6-9AD8-485C-B5D2-23D66C15DC97@numericable.fr>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8"
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 09:50:14 +0300
Message-ID: <1276152614.32193.0.camel@fsopti579.F-Secure.com>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

On tis, 2010-06-08 at 11:04 +0200, John Gage wrote:
> 
> Yet, the only one file edition of the Postgres documentation is  
> in...pdf format.  Huh?
> 
> I know.  I know.  I have already brought this up.  And various ways
> of  
> creating a one file text edition of the documentation have been  
> proposed to me.  I know.
> 
> But either I am a visitor from the Crab Nebula, or there is someone  
> else out there who would like to have a text file of the entire  
> documentation.

As I said back then, doing this is straightforward, but we kind of need
more than one user who asks for it before we make it part of a regular
service, which comes with maintenance costs.