To: nolan@celery.tssi.com
Cc: gearond@cvc.net (Dennis Gearon),
	scrappy@postgresql.org (The Hermit Hacker),
	cobalt@bearfruit.org (Matthew Nuzum),
	pgsql-advocacy@postgresql.org (\"'Advocacy PostgreSQL'\"),
	pgsql-general@postgresql.org ('PostgreSQL-general')
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] interesting PHP/MySQL thread 
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Comments: In-reply-to nolan@celery.tssi.com
	message dated "Tue, 24 Jun 2003 00:07:32 -0500"
Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2003 09:59:06 -0400
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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

nolan@celery.tssi.com writes:
> And while i'm on the subject, the only book (hard copy) I've got on 
> PostgreSQL is the O'Reilly 'Practical PostgreSQL' book, now a bit dated,
> which has one of the worst indexes I've seen in a computer manual in years.  
> It may be the worst index I've ever experienced in an O'Reilly book.

> I've had a series of paper clips, bulldog clips and post-it notes marking 
> the sections I tend to reuse frequently, because the index doesn't get 
> you there.  Most of the time I use the online manual, and I've got a
> few pages that aren't obvious from the table of contents bookmarked for
> the online manual, too.

The online manuals have an index.  Could you write up a list of proposed
index additions for us?  A few quick <indexentry> commands would be easy
enough to add to the doc sources --- the hard part is knowing what to
index.

			regards, tom lane