Received: from localhost (unknown [200.46.204.184]) by developer.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AA5612E0073 for ; Wed, 7 May 2008 16:27:13 -0300 (ADT) Received: from developer.postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.184]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 04247-03 for ; Wed, 7 May 2008 16:27:05 -0300 (ADT) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.6 Received: from lists.commandprompt.com (host-159.commandprompt.net [207.173.203.159]) by developer.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C17612E0070 for ; Wed, 7 May 2008 16:27:08 -0300 (ADT) Received: from perhan.alvh.no-ip.org (200-126-123-196.bk8-dsl.surnet.cl [200.126.123.196]) (authenticated bits=0) by lists.commandprompt.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m47JRZoa013403 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Wed, 7 May 2008 12:27:38 -0700 Received: by perhan.alvh.no-ip.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 603DC47C5C; Wed, 7 May 2008 15:27:17 -0400 (CLT) Date: Wed, 7 May 2008 15:27:17 -0400 From: Alvaro Herrera To: Bruce Momjian Cc: Scott Marlowe , Tom Lane , pgsql-docs@postgresql.org Subject: Re: order of entries in admin docs Message-ID: <20080507192717.GO20150@alvh.no-ip.org> References: <200805071827.m47IR4j04395@momjian.us> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <200805071827.m47IR4j04395@momjian.us> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17+20080114 (2008-01-14) X-Greylist: Sender succeeded SMTP AUTH, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.0 (lists.commandprompt.com [207.173.203.159]); Wed, 07 May 2008 12:27:38 -0700 (PDT) X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Archive-Number: 200805/9 X-Sequence-Number: 4895 Bruce Momjian escribió: > Scott Marlowe wrote: > > Well, if you say so. It seems like a natural part of it to me, but > > the modifications required to move things like that are pretty big, > > and I really don't feel comfortable enough in sgml to get it right. > > Right now we have all postgresql.conf documentation in the same chapter. > To move it would split that up, which I think is confusing. Perhaps it would be better to have prose explaining all the stuff structured like Scott proposes, and make the postgresql.conf be just a reference linking to that. I don't think making postgresql.conf be the primary documentation is very nice. -- Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/ The PostgreSQL Company - Command Prompt, Inc.