Re: Re: 7.1 Docs WAS:Auto-timestamp generator (attached)

On Mon, 12 Feb 2001, Bruce Momjian wrote:

> > As a suggestion regarding the docs ... as a newbie, I went straight to
> > the"user's lounge" and didn't check out the "developer's corner" because
> > I figured those docs would be pretty hard-core technical. But in
> > reality, many of the developer's docs are much the same, only more
> > current and more complete. I think I have seen other questions on this
> > listserv deriving from the same problem (they would be easily answered
> > from the developer's docs). IMHO, perhaps there should be some sort of a
> > pointer from the user's lounge to the developer's docs, with warning, if
> > that is necessary??
>
> Can you give us an example of something you found in developers that was
> not in users?

The docs in devel-corner are for a not yet released version. If you're
running a beta or developer's version of PostgreSQL, that's what you
need. Otherwise you should avoid it or encounter the same pitfall as
others who thought the stuff was relevant to their release systems and
spent hours trying to get something working that wasn't implemented in
their version.

> > While I'm at it ... to show that I am super-anal-retentive ... the "l"
> > in "lounge" on the www.postgresql.org home page should be capitalized. :)
>
> Oh, he got us there.

No, as he said he's being anal. Since I came up with the user's lounge
I'm the one that knows it's not a proper noun and therefore *should* be
lower case. I do however make it upper case at times for no apparent
reason -- my bad :)

Vince.
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