Re: PostgreSQL man pages - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: PostgreSQL man pages
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Msg-id 2631.971542027@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to PostgreSQL man pages  ("Aristide Aragon" <aristide@lionking.org>)
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"Aristide Aragon" <aristide@lionking.org> writes:
> I use "man -k" I get:
> | whatis: warning: can't read the fallback whatis text database.
> | whatis: /usr/local/pgsql/man/whatis: No such file or directory

I believe most versions of man -k expect to find indexes in the man
directories.  Look around to see if there's a utility called something
like "mkwhatis" that you need to run.  ("man man" will probably point you
to it.)

            regards, tom lane

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