Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2006 12:12:50 -0800
From: David Fetter <david@fetter.org>
To: Jim Nasby <jnasby@pervasive.com>
Cc: Oisin Glynn <me@oisinglynn.com>,
	pgsql general <pgsql-general@postgresql.org>,
	PostgreSQL Docs <pgsql-docs@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] COPY command documentation
Message-ID: <20060323201250.GC6106@fetter.org>
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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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