Re: [BUGS] BUG #2560: Web page documentation hard to use

From: "Jim C(dot) Nasby" <jnasby(at)pervasive(dot)com>
To: PF <kernel(at)pkts(dot)ca>
Cc: pgsql-www(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: [BUGS] BUG #2560: Web page documentation hard to use
Date: 2006-08-09 22:59:42
Message-ID: 20060809225942.GF27928@pervasive.com
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On Wed, Aug 09, 2006 at 09:51:48AM -0700, PF wrote:
> The php language web site (http://www.php.net/) seems to have a good
> solution; the search can be restricted to just the function list.
>
> The other language reference that comes to mind is the perlfunc man
> page; every keyword is on one page, with examples. Searching is not as
> big a problem because you know you're on the right page already; you
> only have to scroll down to the keyword in alphabetical order. It makes
> for a long page, but that isn't much of a drawback.
>
> I just had a thought; is there an index of keywords for postgres?

No... anyone know the grammar well enough to know if it'd be easy to
extract them? Though I guess we'd still need to come up with references
back to the appropriate documentation page, but it might make sense to
embed that in the grammar code...
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