Re: Postgres Printed Manuals

From: "Stuart Cooper" <stuart(dot)cooper(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: "Robert James" <srobertjames(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Postgres Printed Manuals
Date: 2007-05-14 03:01:47
Message-ID: 7fc8628a0705132001m38ed5ac3r5df5fc266337a3e@mail.gmail.com
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> The Postgres docs are great. Unfortunatelty, at 1600 pages, my printer is a
> little weary. Are bound & printed editions available? If not, has anyone
> had any good experience printing them via any of the online services? (The
> ones I contacted said it was too big for them to print...)

You're right, the page count is just unfeasible.
You could try mpage-ing it to 4 pages per sheet and print it out double-sided,
you would then have a smaller document that could be bound- the only problem
is the text would be so small to be virtually unreadable. I did this
with a Common
Lisp manual years ago and never refer to it for that reason.

A good compromise would be to invest in a PostgreSQL book
(best: PostgreSQL by Korry Douglas
also good: Practical PostgreSQL by Command Prompt,
PostgreSQL: Introduction and Concepts by Momjian)
and refer to the Postgres docs for the definitive reference.

Cheers,
Stuart.

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