Martijn van Oosterhout schrob: > On Sat, Oct 29, 2005 at 08:29:32PM +0100, mike dixon wrote: >> I really love the "info" help system (don't know its name; "info >> emacs" on cmd line if it's installed calls it up; filenames are >> "texinfo-info*" for example); anyone know if info files are available >> anywhere for pgsql? I looked at what gentoo's "emerge" installed and >> don't see anything... > > I don't think so. However, most of the documentation is in SGML format > and you should be able to convert that to info format...
I was able to build one by adding some targets to doc/src/sgml/Makefile using <http://docbook2x.sf.net/>: --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- postgres.txml: postgres.xml db2x_xsltproc -s texi postgres.xml -o postgres.txml postgres.texi: postgres.txml db2x_texixml --encoding=iso-8859-1//TRANSLIT postgres.txml --to-stdout | \ sed -e 's/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/@setfilename postgres.info/' \ -e '/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/,/[EMAIL PROTECTED] direntry/{\ s/([^)]\+/(postgres.info/\ }' \ > postgres.texi postgres.info: postgres.texi makeinfo --no-validate postgres.texi -o postgres.info --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- However, the resulting info documentation is still lacking an index, which doesn't make it as usable at it could be :-/. regards, Andreas -- ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 9: In versions below 8.0, the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index scan if your joining column's datatypes do not match
