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From: Robert Haas <[email protected]>
To: alvherre <[email protected]>
Cc: Bruce Momjian <[email protected]>
Cc: Francisco Reyes <[email protected]>
Cc: Greg Sabino Mullane <[email protected]>
Cc: pgsql-docs <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Londiste
Date: Wed, 26 May 2010 21:41:52 -0400
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On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 4:03 PM, alvherre <[email protected]> wrote:
> Excerpts from Robert Haas's message of mié may 26 15:56:45 -0400 2010:
>
>> > That is an excellent idea, not only for replication, but there are
>> > probably other wiki pages that we should link to from our main docs.  I
>> > will go through the wiki, find appropriate pages, and add links from our
>> > docs.
>>
>> I don't know that I'm eager to link from our docs to the wiki.  That
>> seems likely to lead to maintenance headaches.  But on the other hand,
>> I see no problem mentioning third-party products that are part of the
>> PG ecosystem.
>
> I don't think we should be adding hundreds of wiki links to the docs,
> but if it's just half a dozen, I think it's a good idea.  Those pages
> have already undergone a lot of revision and they are unlikely to go
> away.  We already have links to pages in external sites and they do
> cause some pain, but it's not much and this is only every two years or so.
>
> Keep in mind that pages in the Wiki are going to be replaced by a
> redirect page if they ever get renamed, for example.  It's highly
> unlikely that they are going to disappear completely.

Eh, maybe.  I think generally the wiki documentation is of lower
quality than our main docs.  I'd rather see us put the effort into
writing something that can be incorporated into the docs.

-- 
Robert Haas
EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com
The Enterprise Postgres Company

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