From: | Bruno Wolff III <bruno(at)wolff(dot)to> |
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To: | "Ron St(dot)Pierre" <rstpierre(at)syscor(dot)com> |
Cc: | pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: Documentation needs significant improvement |
Date: | 2003-01-30 19:55:57 |
Message-ID: | 20030130195557.GA2346@wolff.to |
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On Thu, Jan 30, 2003 at 17:59:17 +0000,
"Ron St.Pierre" <rstpierre(at)syscor(dot)com> wrote:
> A little while ago I was a db newbie and a complete postgres newbie, so
> I'll add my two cents worth. The current documentation is really quite
> good, however the problem I had was trying to find what I needed in
> them. Two things helped quite a bit:
> 1 - a good reference book eg PostgreSQL Essential Reference (but not
> Practical PostgreSQL - the index is VERY sparse)
> 2 - pgAdminII - The searching mechanism in the help files is AWESOME.
Another good step is too read through the entire documentation once.
It will give you a good idea of what is there and where abouts it
might be located. So when a question comes up you have some idea
where to look.
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