Re: man pages - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Alvaro Herrera
Subject Re: man pages
Date
Msg-id 20091011235536.GC11690@alvh.no-ip.org
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In response to man pages  (David Fetter <david@fetter.org>)
Responses Re: man pages
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David Fetter wrote:
> Folks,
> 
> I'd like to see about creating man pages for the following:
> 
> - libpq
> - SPI
> - the built-in functions
> 
> These being what I've clicked through way too many web links to find
> information about.  If there are other things that should have man
> pages, please mention same.

We already have SPI manpages in HEAD.  libpq would be very useful, I
agree; you should try to patch the SGML following the SPI example in
order to get those.  It shouldn't be difficult.

As for builtin functions, I think that's going to be a very hard sell.
I'd focus on libpq at first :-)

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Alvaro Herrera                                http://www.CommandPrompt.com/
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