Received: from candle.pha.pa.us (maillist@s5-03.ppp.op.net [209.152.195.67]) by hub.org (8.9.3/8.9.1) with ESMTP id XAA92506 for ; Wed, 28 Apr 1999 23:35:47 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from maillist@candle.pha.pa.us) Received: (from maillist@localhost) by candle.pha.pa.us (8.9.0/8.9.0) id XAA02893; Wed, 28 Apr 1999 23:35:06 -0400 (EDT) From: Bruce Momjian Message-Id: <199904290335.XAA02893@candle.pha.pa.us> Subject: Re: [DOCS] Bug#36300: Postgresql User Guide Wrong (fwd) In-Reply-To: <199904272103.WAA15308@linda.lfix.co.uk> from Oliver Elphick at "Apr 27, 1999 10: 3:41 pm" To: olly@lfix.co.uk (Oliver Elphick) Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 23:35:06 -0400 (EDT) Cc: lockhart@alumni.caltech.edu, docs@postgreSQL.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL47 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit The multipart mime was corrupt. Here it is: --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Package: postgresql Version: 6.4.2-5 Priority: wishlist I just printed out the entire 200 or so page user guide and on page 7 I noticed a mistake. It says in Chapter 2 "Setting up your environment" "If you wish to use a variant of the Bourne shell, such as sh, ksh, or bash, then you would add PATH=/usr/local/pgsql/bin PATH export PATH I tried this with bash and ksh...it works in neither of them giving an error...the proper invocation is: PATH=/usr/local/pgsql/bin:$PATH export PATH It would be nice if this was right...even though on Debian Systems it doesn't apply...should be able to just forward this one upstream -- Bruce Momjian | http://www.op.net/~candle maillist@candle.pha.pa.us | (610) 853-3000 + If your life is a hard drive, | 830 Blythe Avenue + Christ can be your backup. | Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania 19026