Re: [INTERFACES] Lots of obsolete docs in pgaccess/lib/help

From: Constantin Teodorescu <teo(at)flex(dot)ro>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: pgsql-interfaces(at)postgresql(dot)org, pgsql-docs(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: [INTERFACES] Lots of obsolete docs in pgaccess/lib/help
Date: 2001-06-04 12:39:05
Message-ID: 3B1B8169.3A59F5D1@flex.ro
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Tom Lane wrote:
>
> I notice that pgaccess' help files contain a lot of out-of-date quotes
> from the primary documentation files. This is not good.
>
> It looks like these files were once quasi-automatically generated from
> the main files. Any chance of getting that process put into place
> fully automatically? If not, frankly I'd vote for ripping the pgaccess
> help facility out altogether: better people should have to go look at
> the real docs than that they should have convenient instant access to
> misinformation.

No. For the moment, the Help files were written manually so I think that
they should be updated the same way.
It would be better to me that I'll know what topics are changed so I can
prepare them for the next release.

Constantin Teodorescu

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