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From: Peter Hunsberger <[email protected]>
To: John Gage <[email protected]>
Cc: PostgreSQL - General <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Cognitive dissonance
Date: Tue, 8 Jun 2010 09:23:13 -0500
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>
References: <[email protected]>

On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 4:04 AM, John Gage <[email protected]> wrote:
> Unix is a text-based operating system with unbelievably helpful text
> manipulation tools.
>
> Postgres is a creature of Unix which happens to have unbelievable text
> searching and manipulation tools.
>
> Yet, the only one file edition of the Postgres documentation is in...pdf
> format.  Huh?
>

I suppose the next thing you'll be suggesting is that, because
Postgres is a database, the documentation should be stored as some
form of searchable table within the database itself....?

<runs and hides/>

-- 
Peter Hunsberger

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