Re: PL/SQL-to-PL/pgSQL-HOWTO - Mailing list pgsql-docs

From Peter Eisentraut
Subject Re: PL/SQL-to-PL/pgSQL-HOWTO
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Msg-id Pine.LNX.4.30.0102271644480.756-100000@peter.localdomain
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In response to Re: PL/SQL-to-PL/pgSQL-HOWTO  (Roberto Mello <rmello@cc.usu.edu>)
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Roberto Mello writes:

>     It's a documentation license with the same spirit as the GPL
> basically. I only licensed it under the GFDL because it was the only one I
> knew of. If that poses a problem for inclusion into the PG docs (which are
> BSD licensed? how does the BSD licenso apply to documentation?) please

Like this:

: Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software and its
: documentation for any purpose, without fee, and without a written agreement
  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
: is hereby granted, provided that the above copyright notice and this
: paragraph and the following two paragraphs appear in all copies.

> let's discuss it so we can reach an agreement.
>     All I want is to help the PG docs to be better. Is there a
> "Documentation-TODO" somewhere? I'd be happy to tackle something else when
> I finish PL/pgSQL.

Not really.  You get to pick.  But I can tell you a few things that I
would personally like to see done.

>     On that topic (PL/pgSQL) I wanted to know from Thomas if it's ok for
> mo to break the topics in the PL/pgSQL docs. I find that the
> "everything-under-description" approach is confusing to refer to. It's
> hard to see the topics, etc. Breaking up the topics under "description"
> would also allow we to add more specific and rich examples.

I say, whatever you say goes.  ;-)

>     That's one of the reasons I like the lpd.dsl stylesheet. It creates
>  tables of contents with <sect2>'s listed. (look at
> http://www.brasileiro.net/roberto/howto for an example).

We got that too now.  Since Sunday, I think.

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Peter Eisentraut      peter_e@gmx.net       http://yi.org/peter-e/


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