Re: order of entries in admin docs - Mailing list pgsql-docs

From Alvaro Herrera
Subject Re: order of entries in admin docs
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Msg-id 20080507210211.GQ20150@alvh.no-ip.org
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In response to Re: order of entries in admin docs  (Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>)
Responses Re: order of entries in admin docs  (Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>)
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Bruce Momjian escribió:
> Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> > Bruce Momjian escribi?:
> > > Scott Marlowe wrote:
> >
> > > > Well, if you say so.  It seems like a natural part of it to me, but
> > > > the modifications required to move things like that are pretty big,
> > > > and I really don't feel comfortable enough in sgml to get it right.
> > >
> > > Right now we have all postgresql.conf documentation in the same chapter.
> > > To move it would split that up, which I think is confusing.
> >
> > Perhaps it would be better to have prose explaining all the stuff
> > structured like Scott proposes, and make the postgresql.conf be just a
> > reference linking to that.  I don't think making postgresql.conf be the
> > primary documentation is very nice.
>
> So you are suggesting splitting out the postgresql.conf content into its
> relevant sections and just linking to it?  That would work.

Yes, or something like that.  I don't think leaving _just_ the links on
the postgresql.conf would be enough.  But a comprehensive, verbose
explanation should be elsewhere; a short blurb and the link would remain
on the postgresql.conf reference.

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