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Thank you all for your suggestions.  Thank you very much.

John


1) 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/>

------Well, that is exactly what I have done with the MeSH subject  
headings.  And it works like a charm.


2) Its also available in chm  windows help file format.  Which i find  
allot
more useful
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/manuals/
you could print chm to a text file.

------I'll have to boot over to XP, ugh.  Will do.


3)  also it not hard to dump a PDF document into a text file.

------I would print out what the dump looks like, but this is a family  
program


4) Would a \h+ that gave you the text from the web-page be useful..?   
That,
plus the various man pages, would cover an awful lot of what's in SGML..

 From <http://www.postgresql.org/docs/manuals/>:
"The DocBook SGML source for the manuals is available as part of the  
PostgreSQL source download available in the FTP area."


-----I'm headed there.  It's just that given the incredibly good  
documentation and the fact that it's available in just about every  
format except a text file, I was sort of hoping for a policy change on  
the part of the powers that be.