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From: Jim Nasby <jnasby@pervasive.com>
Subject: Re: suggestions for "whatsnew" page
Date: Wed, 5 Apr 2006 18:13:21 -0400
To: Jeff MacDonald <jam@zoidtechnologies.com>

Is the website available in CVS so Jeff can submit a patch?

On Mar 28, 2006, at 10:08 PM, Jeff MacDonald wrote:

> greetings,
>
> I'm new to the list :)
>
> I had a look at http://www.postgresql.org/docs/whatsnew  and I have  
> some
> suggestions for making that particular page better.
>
> - I'd like to know more specific information about the "administration
> functions" and how they have improved over previous versions of pg.  
> this
> might be as simple as a link into the documentation, or as involved as
> making a "detailedlistingofwhatisnew" page.
>
> - it would be cool if references to pgsql functions (min(), max(),
> lastval(), etc) were hyperlinked into the documentation.
>
> - more hyperlinks! it's great that there are "more than 120 new
> features", but I have no idea where to start reading in the docs so I
> can make use of them :)
>
> - a link to
> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.1/interactive/release-8-1.html  
> from the
> "whatsnew" page seems appropriate.
>
> I realize these suggestions, if implemented, will require a "plain  
> text"
> and "website" version which may be more work but if we get more  
> users as
> a result I feel it will be worth it.
>
> regards,
> J
> -- 
> Jeff MacDonald
> Zoid Technologies, http://zoidtechnologies.com/
>
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