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Subject: Re: Cognitive dissonance
From: Peter Hunsberger <peter.hunsberger@gmail.com>
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On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 4:04 AM, John Gage <jsmgage@numericable.fr> 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. =A0Huh?
>

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/>

--=20
Peter Hunsberger