Re: Man page sections - Mailing list pgsql-docs

From The Hermit Hacker
Subject Re: Man page sections
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Msg-id Pine.BSF.4.21.0008200116290.3758-100000@thelab.hub.org
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In response to Re: Man page sections  (Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>)
Responses Re: Man page sections  (Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>)
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On Sat, 19 Aug 2000, Bruce Momjian wrote:

> > > I think we should make the man pages for the SQL commands section 7
> > > ("miscellaneous"), rather than "l" (ell). The latter is not a standard or
> > > portable concept.
> >
> > Yeah, that was always a bit strange to me. Any objections to section 7?
> > The man page tool can do this easily...
>
> 7 sounds good.

isn't there a doc on what each section is "meant for"?  for instance,
section 3 is generally where you find language man pages (ie. getopt(),
printf()) ...



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