Subject: Re: Cognitive dissonance
From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: John Gage <jsmgage@numericable.fr>,
	PostgreSQL - General <pgsql-general@postgresql.org>,
	Robert =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Gravsj=F6?= <robert@blogg.se>,
	Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
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Date: Sat, 12 Jun 2010 18:42:24 +0300
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On lör, 2010-06-12 at 09:10 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> writes:
> > On lör, 2010-06-12 at 11:18 +0200, John Gage wrote:
> >> A one file html version would be a godsend.
> 
> > I've committed a build target for that now.  Use 'make postgres.html' in
> > doc/src/sgml/.
> 
> Huh, is that actually worth anything?  How many browsers will open it
> without crashing, or will navigate the page with decent performance
> if they do manage to open it?

Text output is generated by going through HTML.  I haven't figured out
the best way to do the second step yet.  We use lynx for INSTALL and
HISTORY, but the results for this big file aren't very clean.

Browsers seem to handle the file OK, btw.