From: David Fetter <david@fetter.org>
To: Jim Nasby <jnasby@pervasive.com>
Cc: Oisin Glynn <me@oisinglynn.com>
Cc: pgsql general <pgsql-general@postgresql.org>
Cc: PostgreSQL Docs <pgsql-docs@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] COPY command documentation
Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2006 12:12:50 -0800
Message-ID: <20060323201250.GC6106@fetter.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <483F344B-FF17-4DC5-8922-775213566788@pervasive.com>
References: <4422B9F8.60100@oisinglynn.com>
<483F344B-FF17-4DC5-8922-775213566788@pervasive.com>
On Thu, Mar 23, 2006 at 07:00:13PM +0100, Jim Nasby wrote:
> On Mar 23, 2006, at 4:08 PM, Oisin Glynn wrote:
>
> >I just discovered that the comments from 8.0 had the answer I was
> >looking for but these comments are not in the 8.1 docs. Should the
> >comments be rolled forward as new versions are created? Or if valid
> >comments added to the docs themselves?
> >
> >http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.1/interactive/sql-copy.html
> >
> >http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.0/interactive/sql-copy.html
>
> No, comments don't roll forward.
...and it's unlikely that they will, now or later, without somebody
whose whole job is to monitor those comments and make patches.
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.
What say?
Cheers,
D
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