From: Thomas Lockhart <lockhart@alumni.caltech.edu>
To: Mitch Vincent <mvincent@cablespeed.com>
Cc: pgsql-general@postgresql.org
Cc: pgsql-docs@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Re: QUERY - Including the new LDP PostgreSQL HOWTO in the main PostgreSQL distribution
Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2001 01:53:58 +0000
Message-ID: <3B4BB1B6.9050614B@alumni.caltech.edu> (raw)
References: <200107091231.f69CVGk16384@candle.pha.pa.us>
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<003d01c10880$9175d820$1251000a@Mitch>
> > For a long time, I thougt HOWTO is docuement for "quick start". Isn't it?
> I'm not sure there is an understood meaning of what a HOWTO actually it.
> It's an explanation of how to do something, I guess... Generally I've found
> (as in your example) that it's putting software together and making it work,
> like Apache/SSL/Frontpage/something -- for that there is no single document
> that describes how to set it up. I really don't think the PostgreSQL
> installation guide could get much more simple -- why re-invent the wheel
> here?
To have adequate representation of PostgreSQL in the LDP docs set.
It may be sufficient to package the installation guide with some
Linux-specific FAQ information (which afaik is now obsolete and could be
freshened and moved to the SGML-based docs).
- Thomas
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