Re: [GENERAL] COPY command documentation

From: David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org>
To: Jim Nasby <jnasby(at)pervasive(dot)com>
Cc: Oisin Glynn <me(at)oisinglynn(dot)com>, pgsql general <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>, PostgreSQL Docs <pgsql-docs(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] COPY command documentation
Date: 2006-03-23 20:12:50
Message-ID: 20060323201250.GC6106@fetter.org
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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 Proposal™: Let's take down the interactive
documents and, in their place, put up a request that doc patches be
sent to -docs.

What say?

Cheers,
D
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