Received: from maia.hub.org (maia-2.hub.org [200.46.204.251]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A3417643B55 for ; Thu, 10 Jun 2010 17:57:46 -0300 (ADT) Received: from mail.postgresql.org ([200.46.204.86]) by maia.hub.org (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.251]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 01134-10 for ; Thu, 10 Jun 2010 20:57:38 +0000 (UTC) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.6 Received: from smtp7.tech.numericable.fr (smtp7.tech.numericable.fr [82.216.111.43]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 78731643AF3 for ; Thu, 10 Jun 2010 17:57:39 -0300 (ADT) Received: from [10.0.1.2] (abo-102-217-68.trs.modulonet.fr [85.68.217.102]) by smtp7.tech.numericable.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 860C4163814 for ; Thu, 10 Jun 2010 22:57:36 +0200 (CEST) Message-Id: From: John Gage To: PostgreSQL - General In-Reply-To: <201006101733.18062.leif@solumslekt.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v936) Subject: Re: Cognitive dissonance Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 22:57:36 +0200 References: <29FD1BB6-9AD8-485C-B5D2-23D66C15DC97@numericable.fr> <1276182912-sup-2656@alvh.no-ip.org> <16964.1276183440@sss.pgh.pa.us> <201006101733.18062.leif@solumslekt.org> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.936) X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.79 tagged_above=-5 required=5 tests=BAYES_50=0.8, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE=-0.0001, T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD=-0.01 X-Spam-Level: X-Archive-Number: 201006/466 X-Sequence-Number: 164003 Like all visitors from the Crab Nebula (except our leaders who are genetically separate) I qualify as a novice when it comes to Postgres. What is more, the people (humans, that is) who need the documentation the most are those who, well, need the documentation the most. Hence, if this were to be made available, it would be great if it was novice speed. Thanks everyone for even contemplating it. John >> Well, there are two separate things here: >> >> * providing a Makefile target to build plain-text output. >> >> * shipping prebuilt plain text docs in standard distributions. >> >> I am for #1, not so much for #2, mainly on the grounds of size. But >> given #1 it would be possible for packagers to make their own choices >> about whether to include plain-text docs. > > Wouldn't it suffice to make it downloadable, like the pdf doc? >