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Cc: John Gage <jsmgage@numericable.fr>,
	PostgreSQL - General <pgsql-general@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: Cognitive dissonance
From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
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Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 11:16:37 -0400
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Excerpts from Peter Eisentraut's message of jue jun 10 02:50:14 -0400 2010:
> 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.

Hey, count me as another interested person in a single-file plain-text
doc output format.

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