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From: J Connolly <[email protected]>
To: David G Johnston <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: how do I suggest a small docs change?
Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2015 09:00:38 -0800
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Thanks for the reply, David! I still think being on github would lower the
barrier to entry for would-be contributors, independent of the SGML format.
Whether you want to encourage more suggestions from less invested people
like me, including some that clearly conflict with established convention,
is another issue :).

J

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On Jan 25, 2015 8:29 AM, "David G Johnston" <[email protected]>
wrote:

> J Connolly wrote
> > Hi, just wondering how to suggest a small change to the docs. On a
> related
> > note, if the source was on github it would be easier for people like me
> to
> > suggest a change.
>
> Just post your thoughts to -docs.  The harder part of doc changes is SGML,
> not the fact the Git repo is not on GitHub.
>
>
> > Here's the suggested change:
> > The tutorial at (
> > http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.4/static/tutorial-transactions.html)
> > should use integers (i.e. cents) when dealing with currency. Tangential
> to
> > the point of that page, but important given that it's a page targeted at
> > beginners.
>
> That example uses the numeric type for currency; which is considerably less
> convoluted then forcing everything to have hundredths resolution and
> multiplication if you want to show the nominal unit (e.g. dollars).
>
> David J.
>
>
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