Received: from localhost (postgresql.org [64.49.215.8]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 534F24758C9 for ; Fri, 29 Nov 2002 19:38:19 -0500 (EST) Received: from paprika.michvhf.com (adsl-67-36-71-182.dsl.sfldmi.ameritech.net [67.36.71.182]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9245A47580B for ; Fri, 29 Nov 2002 19:38:18 -0500 (EST) Received: (qmail 88577 invoked by uid 1001); 30 Nov 2002 00:38:15 -0000 Date: Fri, 29 Nov 2002 19:38:15 -0500 (EST) From: Vince Vielhaber To: Peter Eisentraut Cc: Bruce Momjian , PostgreSQL-documentation Subject: Re: Manual pages In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS new-20020517 X-Archive-Number: 200211/49 X-Sequence-Number: 1573 On Sat, 30 Nov 2002, Peter Eisentraut wrote: > Vince Vielhaber writes: > > > That's interesting 'cuze I'm not generating them. I seem to recall the > > decision to drop the man pages in either late vedr 6.x or early 7.0. I > > didn't know they were still happening. In any case we should find out > > how they're getting into /dev/doc and change that rather than just moving > > a file that could end up in the same place again. > > The man pages are contained in the postgresql-*.tar.gz tarball, the same > way they have been for many releases. I generate them nowadays and upload > them from time to time so that the release building process can pick them > up. There isn't a strong reason that they are made available on the ftp > site, except that it has always been that way and possibly so that people > could download them during the development cycle, in the same way they can > download the HTML version of the documentation. But there isn't any > reason why they have to be copied elsewhere because anyone who downloads > PostgreSQL already has them and using them separately is not supported. Solves that. Vince. -- http://www.meanstreamradio.com http://www.unknown-artists.com Internet radio: It's not file sharing, it's just radio.