From: Constantin Teodorescu <teo@flex.ro>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: pgsql-interfaces@postgresql.org
Cc: pgsql-docs@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: [INTERFACES] Lots of obsolete docs in pgaccess/lib/help
Date: Mon, 04 Jun 2001 15:39:05 +0300
Message-ID: <3B1B8169.3A59F5D1@flex.ro> (raw)
References: <20892.991198271@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Tom Lane wrote:
>
> I notice that pgaccess' help files contain a lot of out-of-date quotes
> from the primary documentation files. This is not good.
>
> It looks like these files were once quasi-automatically generated from
> the main files. Any chance of getting that process put into place
> fully automatically? If not, frankly I'd vote for ripping the pgaccess
> help facility out altogether: better people should have to go look at
> the real docs than that they should have convenient instant access to
> misinformation.
No. For the moment, the Help files were written manually so I think that
they should be updated the same way.
It would be better to me that I'll know what topics are changed so I can
prepare them for the next release.
Constantin Teodorescu
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