| From: | "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, PostgreSQL-patches <pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: [HACKERS] SGML index build fix |
| Date: | 2007-01-07 04:58:26 |
| Message-ID: | 1168145906.869.24.camel@localhost.localdomain |
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On Sat, 2007-01-06 at 23:38 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> writes:
> > The attached patch warns users when they create documentation output
> > that has no index, and suggests re-running 'gmake'.
>
> This is just useless noise. If it could tell the difference between an
> up-to-date index and a not-up-to-date one, there might be some value
> to it ... but as-is I think it's just getting in the user's face.
> Everyone using these tools knows about the two-pass behavior.
No, not everyone knows. In fact I would argue that most do not know. It
isn't intuitive to the process. You *expect* that an index will be made.
Joshua D. Drake
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