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 4D53B9DC835 for ; Thu, 23 Mar 2006 18:16:56 -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 40568-03 for ; Thu, 23 Mar 2006 18:16:57 -0400 (AST) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey- Received: from sss.pgh.pa.us (sss.pgh.pa.us [66.207.139.130]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE97D9DCB81 for ; Thu, 23 Mar 2006 18:16:52 -0400 (AST) Received: from sss2.sss.pgh.pa.us (tgl@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by sss.pgh.pa.us (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k2NMGlCn013229; Thu, 23 Mar 2006 17:16:47 -0500 (EST) To: Robert Treat cc: pgsql-docs@postgresql.org, David Fetter , Jim Nasby , Oisin Glynn Subject: Re: [GENERAL] COPY command documentation In-reply-to: <200603231646.02465.xzilla@users.sourceforge.net> References: <4422B9F8.60100@oisinglynn.com> <483F344B-FF17-4DC5-8922-775213566788@pervasive.com> <20060323201250.GC6106@fetter.org> <200603231646.02465.xzilla@users.sourceforge.net> Comments: In-reply-to Robert Treat message dated "Thu, 23 Mar 2006 16:46:02 -0500" Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2006 17:16:47 -0500 Message-ID: <13228.1143152207@sss.pgh.pa.us> From: Tom Lane X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at hub.org X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.114 required=5 tests=[AWL=0.114] X-Spam-Score: 0.114 X-Spam-Level: X-Archive-Number: 200603/37 X-Sequence-Number: 3494 Robert Treat writes: > On Thursday 23 March 2006 15:12, David Fetter wrote: >> I'd like to make a Modest Proposal™: Let's take down the interactive >> documents and, in their place, put up a request that doc patches be >> sent to -docs. > I'd say you're anti-interactive comments :-) I concur. People *like* interactive comments, it seems, and we'd not accomplish much by taking them away except to piss off the users. What we do need is a better process for improving the docs in response to what gets posted as interactive comments. I've tried in the past to scan the interactive comments and incorporate what seemed worthwhile, but it's a mighty tedious task. > The other option would be to mail approved doc comments to this group so that > someone could work them up into doc patches if applicable. We could try this for awhile and see if it works. regards, tom lane