Re: [GENERAL] Re: PostgreSQL vs Oracle vs DB2 vs MySQL - Which should I use?

Tom Lane writes:

> Aside from persuading more people to spend time answering email
> questions, I agree we need to work harder on making answers findable
> outside the mailing lists. Improving the docs, making the mail archives
> more easily searchable, etc etc. I dunno if an "annotated manual" would
> help --- I've never used one --- but if people want to try one, it can't
> hurt. The main problem is to get the work done. We need volunteers to
> actually do some of these things, not just suggest them ...

One thing we should try to do in the future (i.e., the next big attack I
have on you) is to maintain a human-edited concept index for the docs,
like every good non-fiction book has at the end. The technical details
for this are mostly worked out, it just needs someone to compose a list of
all "concepts" and find all the places where they're discussed.

This might even be something to stick in for the 7.1.1 release, because
otherwise there will be another 8 month lag before it becomes useful.

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Peter Eisentraut peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net http://yi.org/peter-e/