Re: [PATCHES] SGML index build fix - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: [PATCHES] SGML index build fix
Date
Msg-id 200701070542.l075g6p24768@momjian.us
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In response to Re: [PATCHES] SGML index build fix  ("Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com>)
Responses Re: [PATCHES] SGML index build fix  (Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@svana.org>)
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Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> On Sat, 2007-01-06 at 23:38 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> > Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> writes:
> > > The attached patch warns users when they create documentation output
> > > that has no index, and suggests re-running 'gmake'.
> >
> > This is just useless noise.  If it could tell the difference between an
> > up-to-date index and a not-up-to-date one, there might be some value
> > to it ... but as-is I think it's just getting in the user's face.
> > Everyone using these tools knows about the two-pass behavior.
>
> No, not everyone knows. In fact I would argue that most do not know. It
> isn't intuitive to the process. You *expect* that an index will be made.

The idea for the warning message actually came from Peter.

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