| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | nolan(at)celery(dot)tssi(dot)com |
| Cc: | gearond(at)cvc(dot)net (Dennis Gearon), scrappy(at)postgresql(dot)org (The Hermit Hacker), cobalt(at)bearfruit(dot)org (Matthew Nuzum), pgsql-advocacy(at)postgresql(dot)org (\"'Advocacy PostgreSQL'\"), pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org ('PostgreSQL-general') |
| Subject: | Re: [GENERAL] interesting PHP/MySQL thread |
| Date: | 2003-06-24 13:59:06 |
| Message-ID: | 18992.1056463146@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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nolan(at)celery(dot)tssi(dot)com writes:
> And while i'm on the subject, the only book (hard copy) I've got on
> PostgreSQL is the O'Reilly 'Practical PostgreSQL' book, now a bit dated,
> which has one of the worst indexes I've seen in a computer manual in years.
> It may be the worst index I've ever experienced in an O'Reilly book.
> I've had a series of paper clips, bulldog clips and post-it notes marking
> the sections I tend to reuse frequently, because the index doesn't get
> you there. Most of the time I use the online manual, and I've got a
> few pages that aren't obvious from the table of contents bookmarked for
> the online manual, too.
The online manuals have an index. Could you write up a list of proposed
index additions for us? A few quick <indexentry> commands would be easy
enough to add to the doc sources --- the hard part is knowing what to
index.
regards, tom lane
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