Re: Formatted man pages - Mailing list pgsql-docs

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Formatted man pages
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Msg-id 16584.1014388867@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: Formatted man pages  (Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>)
Responses Re: Formatted man pages  (Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>)
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Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> thought the postgresql-7.2.tar.gz had everything, including HTML.  At
> least I think it should.

Certainly, and it does.

> So, it has the man pages and HTML files?  OK, I see now, the man pages
> are in the base tarball postgresql-base-7.2.tar.gz, so they don't need
> to be in the doc tarball.  Now, I really do get it.

I thought the item under discussion was which split-tarball file should
contain the prebuilt doc files.  To me, putting 'em in -docs makes much
more sense than putting them in -base, for both HTML and man-page files.
So I think your complaint was legit, if poorly worded.

            regards, tom lane

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