Received: from localhost (postgresql.org [64.49.215.8]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BCB1F475E91 for ; Fri, 29 Nov 2002 19:28:40 -0500 (EST) Received: from mail.gmx.net (mail.gmx.net [213.165.65.60]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A95444758C9 for ; Fri, 29 Nov 2002 19:28:39 -0500 (EST) Received: (qmail 26673 invoked by uid 0); 30 Nov 2002 00:28:41 -0000 Received: from pd902f0db.dip0.t-ipconnect.de (217.2.240.219) by mail.gmx.net (mp004-rz3) with SMTP; 30 Nov 2002 00:28:41 -0000 Date: Sat, 30 Nov 2002 01:37:13 +0100 (CET) From: Peter Eisentraut X-X-Sender: peter@localhost.localdomain To: Vince Vielhaber 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: 200211/48 X-Sequence-Number: 1572 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. -- Peter Eisentraut peter_e@gmx.net