Re: Documentation needs significant improvement - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Bruno Wolff III
Subject Re: Documentation needs significant improvement
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Msg-id 20030130195557.GA2346@wolff.to
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In response to Re: Documentation needs significant improvement  ("Ron St.Pierre" <rstpierre@syscor.com>)
List pgsql-general
On Thu, Jan 30, 2003 at 17:59:17 +0000,
  "Ron St.Pierre" <rstpierre@syscor.com> wrote:
> A little while ago I was a db newbie and a complete postgres newbie, so
> I'll add my two cents worth. The current documentation is really quite
> good, however the problem I had was trying to find what I needed in
> them. Two things helped quite a bit:
> 1 - a good reference book eg PostgreSQL Essential Reference (but not
> Practical PostgreSQL - the index is VERY sparse)
> 2 - pgAdminII - The searching mechanism in the help files is AWESOME.

Another good step is too read through the entire documentation once.
It will give you a good idea of what is there and where abouts it
might be located. So when a question comes up you have some idea
where to look.

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