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From: Andrew Ford <[email protected]>
To: Joshua D. Drake <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Article doing a basic comparison of MySQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL
Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2005 17:51:14 +0100
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Joshua D. Drake wrote:

>
>> 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.

I think that the documentation should be split (back out) into separate 
books -- tutorial, reference, release notes, etc.  It is too unwieldy as 
it is.  The release notes at least should be separate -- I was rather 
pissed off when I discovered that what I had printed out included 
changes for releases I had no interest in.  If the documents have been 
amalgamated to suit a publisher then I feel even more agrieved -- I 
resent having to pay for padding and resent the waste of paper.   With a 
duplex printer the documentation fills two binders; printed simplex it 
would be more like four!

Andrew Ford
ford-mason.co.uk

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