On Thu, 2006-03-23 at 14:12, David Fetter wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 23, 2006 at 07:00:13PM +0100, Jim Nasby wrote:
> > On Mar 23, 2006, at 4:08 PM, Oisin Glynn wrote:
> >
> > >I just discovered that the comments from 8.0 had the answer I was
> > >looking for but these comments are not in the 8.1 docs. Should the
> > >comments be rolled forward as new versions are created? Or if valid
> > >comments added to the docs themselves?
> > >
> > >http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.1/interactive/sql-copy.html
> > >
> > >http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.0/interactive/sql-copy.html
> >
> > No, comments don't roll forward.
>
> ...and it's unlikely that they will, now or later, without somebody
> whose whole job is to monitor those comments and make patches.
>
> I'd like to make a Modest Proposalâ„¢: Let's take down the interactive
> documents and, in their place, put up a request that doc patches be
> sent to -docs.
Heck, why not a form that does it for somebody, takes their email
address, and possibly even enrolls them in the -docs newsgroup. It
can't be that hard to code up.