Re: Cognitive dissonance

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
Cc: John Gage <jsmgage(at)numericable(dot)fr>, PostgreSQL - General <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Cognitive dissonance
Date: 2010-06-10 15:16:37
Message-ID: 1276182912-sup-2656@alvh.no-ip.org
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Excerpts from Peter Eisentraut's message of jue jun 10 02:50:14 -0400 2010:
> On tis, 2010-06-08 at 11:04 +0200, John Gage wrote:
> >
> > Yet, the only one file edition of the Postgres documentation is
> > in...pdf format. Huh?
> >
> > I know. I know. I have already brought this up. And various ways
> > of
> > creating a one file text edition of the documentation have been
> > proposed to me. I know.
> >
> > But either I am a visitor from the Crab Nebula, or there is someone
> > else out there who would like to have a text file of the entire
> > documentation.
>
> As I said back then, doing this is straightforward, but we kind of need
> more than one user who asks for it before we make it part of a regular
> service, which comes with maintenance costs.

Hey, count me as another interested person in a single-file plain-text
doc output format.

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Álvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
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