| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, John Gage <jsmgage(at)numericable(dot)fr>, PostgreSQL - General <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Cognitive dissonance |
| Date: | 2010-06-10 15:24:00 |
| Message-ID: | 16964.1276183440@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> writes:
> Excerpts from Peter Eisentraut's message of jue jun 10 02:50:14 -0400 2010:
>> 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.
Well, there are two separate things here:
* providing a Makefile target to build plain-text output.
* shipping prebuilt plain text docs in standard distributions.
I am for #1, not so much for #2, mainly on the grounds of size. But
given #1 it would be possible for packagers to make their own choices
about whether to include plain-text docs.
regards, tom lane
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