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From: Constantin Teodorescu <teo@flex.ro>
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Subject: Re: [INTERFACES] Lots of obsolete docs in pgaccess/lib/help
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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 I notice that pgaccess' help files contain a lot of out-of-date quotes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