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From: Joshua D. Drake <[email protected]>
To: Gavin Sherry <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Article doing a basic comparison of MySQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL
Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2005 08:08:19 -0700
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>
References: <[email protected]>


>I find this peculiar, considering this:
>
>http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.0/static/tutorial-start.html
>
>Now, perhaps the author's conclusion is just bogus but can anyone think of
>better ways in which we could ease people into PostgreSQL?
>  
>
I think more than likely it just isn't obvious where the tutorial is.
I just went to the website, I clicked documentation, no immediate
mention of the tutorial. Then I click 8.0, where is the tutorial?

Oh... it is in the beginning of the 1300 pages of documentation.

Honestly, I didn't even know it was there. Of course I haven't had
need for it, but if I couldn't readily find it in 1 click (which is what
it should be) then a guy writing an article isn't going to either.

The tutorial/introduction should be a nice fat link in the center of
the page when you click documentation.

Right now when you click documentation you get this:

There is a wealth of PostgreSQL information available online. This 
section contains current <http://www.postgresql.org/docs/manuals; and 
archived <http://www.postgresql.org/docs/manuals/archive; manuals for 
PostgreSQL users, as well as frequently asked questions 
<http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faq;.

You can learn what's new <http://www.postgresql.org/docs/whatsnew; in 
the latest release, and view a listing of books 
<http://www.postgresql.org/docs/books; written about PostgreSQL (some of 
which are available in their entirety online). Technical documentation 
<http://techdocs.postgresql.org; is also available in this section.

Which should probably be:

There is a wealth of PostgreSQL information available online. If you are 
new to PostgreSQL we strongly suggest you check out
the latest <BOLD>Tutorial</BOLD>. This section contains current 
<http://www.postgresql.org/docs/manuals; and archived 
<http://www.postgresql.org/docs/manuals/archive; manuals for PostgreSQL 
users, as well as frequently asked questions 
<http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faq;.

You can learn what's new <http://www.postgresql.org/docs/whatsnew; in 
the latest release, and view a listing of books 
<http://www.postgresql.org/docs/books; written about PostgreSQL (some of 
which are available in their entirety online). Technical documentation 
<http://techdocs.postgresql.org; is also available in this section.



Sincerely,

Joshua D. Drake



>Thanks,
>
>Gavin
>
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