X-Original-To: pgsql-docs-postgresql.org@localhost.postgresql.org Received: from localhost (unknown [200.46.204.144]) by svr1.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4392B52E89 for ; Thu, 11 Aug 2005 13:51:24 -0300 (ADT) Received: from svr1.postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (av.hub.org [200.46.204.144]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 72153-02 for ; Thu, 11 Aug 2005 16:51:20 +0000 (GMT) Received: from ford-mason.co.uk (mail.ford-mason.net [82.109.245.2]) by svr1.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 89BE352B16 for ; Thu, 11 Aug 2005 13:51:18 -0300 (ADT) Received: from daedalus.intranet ([172.27.0.102]) by ford-mason.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.51) id 1E3GGw-0004AR-Db; Thu, 11 Aug 2005 17:51:16 +0100 Message-ID: <42FB8202.4000607@ford-mason.co.uk> Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2005 17:51:14 +0100 From: Andrew Ford User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6-1.1.fc4 (X11/20050720) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Joshua D. Drake" Cc: pgsql-docs@postgresql.org, swm@linuxworld.com.au Subject: Re: Article doing a basic comparison of MySQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL References: <42FB69E3.10300@commandprompt.com> In-Reply-To: <42FB69E3.10300@commandprompt.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at hub.org X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.05 tagged_above=0 required=5 tests=[FORGED_RCVD_HELO=0.05] X-Spam-Level: X-Archive-Number: 200508/11 X-Sequence-Number: 3173 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