Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2009 11:31:19 -0400
From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>
To: Brendan Jurd <direvus@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>,
	PostgreSQL WWW <pgsql-www@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: Code snippet hosting?
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Brendan Jurd escribió:
> On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 1:34 AM, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> wrote:
> > People often post a function, a script, or a complex query that is general
> > enough to be worth keeping but perhaps not appropriate for pgfoundry or the
> > documentation.  MySQL has a code snippet service for that:
> > <http://forge.mysql.com/tools/>.  I think something like this would be quite
> > useful for PostgreSQL as well.  Perhaps the wiki could be used for that; I'm
> > not sure.
> 
> Cool idea.  With a little massaging the wiki could accomodate this ...
> there are syntax highlighting plugins we could install to get the code
> snippets looking nice.

+1

Just make sure there are appropriate category tags.

Maybe we should use a separate namespace for this?  Snippet: or
something like that ... not sure if this is a good idea.

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