To: lockhart@fourpalms.org, lockhart@alumni.caltech.edu
Cc: peter_e@gmx.net, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Re: 7.1 docs
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Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2001 00:06:05 +0900
From: Tatsuo Ishii <t-ishii@sra.co.jp>
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> > I have a plan to translate 7.1 docs into Japanases and I looked around
> > current docs. I noticed that contacts.sgml and ref/current*.sgml are
> > not used anywhere in the result html nor in man pages.
> > Does anybody know the reason? Or am I missing something?
> 
> I put in contacts.sgml a *long* time ago, thinking that something like
> it should be in the docs. But it was not complete enough to consider
> including at the time (now that I look, it only has my name ;), so it
> was only a placeholder for the future.
> 
> We could take it out altogether if we want. Peter?
> 
> The ref/current_{date,time...}.sgml files are there because (a)
> functions should be documented, and (b) someone documented them. But we
> never documented enough functions to justify setting up an entire
> section of a manual to cover them. I think that these are more likely to
> be used in the future, but we do need additional pages written covering
> other functions.

Oh I see. Thanks for the explanation.
--
Tatsuo Ishii