Re: [HACKERS] Interactive docs idea

2005-04-15 Thread Jim C. Nasby
On Fri, Apr 15, 2005 at 08:42:45AM +0100, Dave Page wrote: > [pgsql-slavestothewww] Comment 2333 added to page install-upgrading.html of > version 7.4 > Author: Shayne Hardesty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > If you use pg_dump on an older version (say 7.1.x, 7.2.x, or 7.3.x) you will > get complain

Re: [HACKERS] Interactive docs idea

2005-04-15 Thread Dave Page
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 14 April 2005 18:39 > To: Dave Page > Cc: Greg Stark; pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org > Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Interactive docs idea > > "Dave Page" writes: > > >

Re: [HACKERS] Interactive docs idea

2005-04-14 Thread Greg Stark
Alvaro Herrera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > So there's no comments saying "here's a useful function written using this > > function" or "watch out for this common bug" or "if what you want to do is > > this you might want to check out this other function" or any of the > > thousands > > of sim

Re: [HACKERS] Interactive docs idea

2005-04-14 Thread Alvaro Herrera
On Thu, Apr 14, 2005 at 03:01:10PM -0400, Greg Stark wrote: > Alvaro Herrera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Thu, Apr 14, 2005 at 01:39:11PM -0400, Greg Stark wrote: > > > > > I think the idea of moderating the comments is inherently flawed. You can > > > either have the deliberate, planned

Re: [HACKERS] Interactive docs idea

2005-04-14 Thread Greg Stark
Alvaro Herrera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, Apr 14, 2005 at 01:39:11PM -0400, Greg Stark wrote: > > > I think the idea of moderating the comments is inherently flawed. You can > > either have the deliberate, planned documentation without the comments, or > > you > > can have the wild-we

Re: [HACKERS] Interactive docs idea

2005-04-14 Thread Joshua D. Drake
The comments in the PHP docs, while they contain a lot of garbage also contain a lot of helpful tips and warnings. There's hardly any in the Postgres docs. If it were I, we would start a wiki that was linked from the docs but not have the docs themselves have the comments. I think the idea of

Re: [HACKERS] Interactive docs idea

2005-04-14 Thread Alvaro Herrera
On Thu, Apr 14, 2005 at 01:39:11PM -0400, Greg Stark wrote: > I think the idea of moderating the comments is inherently flawed. You can > either have the deliberate, planned documentation without the comments, or you > can have the wild-west style comments system, but trying to have it both ways >

Re: [HACKERS] Interactive docs idea

2005-04-14 Thread Greg Stark
"Dave Page" writes: > We can get from 2 - 10 a day I would guess. They get mailed to a closed > list for moderation. Uhm, then where are they? The comments in the PHP docs, while they contain a lot of garbage also contain a lot of helpful tips and warnings. There's hardly any in the Postgres do

Re: [HACKERS] Interactive docs idea

2005-04-14 Thread Alvaro Herrera
On Thu, Apr 14, 2005 at 11:54:56AM -0400, Robert Treat wrote: > On the PostgreSQL front, Tom has in the past gone through comments > around release time and integrated in the relevant changes; I've also > submitted a patch or two based on suggestions that have come across > since we got the new sy

Re: [HACKERS] Interactive docs idea

2005-04-14 Thread Robert Treat
On Thu, 2005-04-14 at 03:56, Dave Page wrote: > > > > -Original Message- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Greg Stark > > Sent: 14 April 2005 04:54 > > To: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org > > Subject: Re: [HACK

Re: [HACKERS] Interactive docs idea

2005-04-14 Thread Andrew Dunstan
Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote: It seems that's not much of a danger -- the interactive Postgres documentation hardly gets any comments at all in the first place. It would be a big improvement if there were some way to encourage many more comments. Only link to the version with comments. No than

Re: [HACKERS] Interactive docs idea

2005-04-14 Thread Dave Page
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Greg Stark > Sent: 14 April 2005 04:54 > To: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org > Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Interactive docs idea > > Alvaro Herrera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: [HACKERS] Interactive docs idea

2005-04-13 Thread Christopher Kings-Lynne
It seems that's not much of a danger -- the interactive Postgres documentation hardly gets any comments at all in the first place. It would be a big improvement if there were some way to encourage many more comments. Only link to the version with comments. Chris ---(end of b

Re: [HACKERS] Interactive docs idea

2005-04-13 Thread Greg Stark
Alvaro Herrera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I think it's an interesting idea to mail the comments to pgsql-docs, but > *please don't* start emulating the PHP behavior regarding comments > (leaving the "relevant" ones forever) :-( I think the PHP manuals are > very low quality because of the info

Re: [HACKERS] Interactive docs idea

2005-04-13 Thread Alvaro Herrera
On Thu, Apr 14, 2005 at 09:41:43AM +0800, Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote: > After working on PHP for a few weeks, I see that what they do with their > interactive docs is have any comments posted get emailed to the docs > list. Do we do this? I think it's an interesting idea to mail the comment

[HACKERS] Interactive docs idea

2005-04-13 Thread Christopher Kings-Lynne
Hi guys, After working on PHP for a few weeks, I see that what they do with their interactive docs is have any comments posted get emailed to the docs list. Do we do this? That was, good comments are immediately integrated into the manual. Chris ---(end of broadcast)

Re: [HACKERS] Interactive docs

2004-08-24 Thread Dave Page
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Gaetano Mendola > Sent: 23 August 2004 22:41 > To: Bruce Momjian; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Interactive docs > > > However I see now the right do

Re: [HACKERS] Interactive docs

2004-08-23 Thread Gaetano Mendola
Bruce Momjian wrote: > Gaetano Mendola wrote: > >>Hi all, >>I don't want be a pain in the but now that 7.4.5 is >>officially out I think is time to change the version doc on: >> >>http://www.postgresql.org/docs/7.4/interactive/index.html > I have updated the FAQ. ?? However I see now the right

Re: [HACKERS] Interactive docs

2004-08-23 Thread Bruce Momjian
I have updated the FAQ. --- Gaetano Mendola wrote: > Hi all, > I don't want be a pain in the but now that 7.4.5 is > officially out I think is time to change the version doc on: > > http://www.postgresql.org/docs/7.4/in

[HACKERS] Interactive docs

2004-08-23 Thread Gaetano Mendola
Hi all, I don't want be a pain in the but now that 7.4.5 is officially out I think is time to change the version doc on: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/7.4/interactive/index.html Regards Gaetano Mendola ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 2: you can ge

Re: [HACKERS] interactive docs error

2003-01-27 Thread Marc G. Fournier
Already fixed ... one of those things where per-db connection limits would have been helpful :( On Sat, 25 Jan 2003, Dave Cramer wrote: > > Warning: pg_connect() unable to connect to PostgreSQL server: FATAL 1: > Sorry, too many clients already in > /usr/local/www/www.postgresql.org/idocs/opendb

[HACKERS] interactive docs error

2003-01-25 Thread Dave Cramer
Warning: pg_connect() unable to connect to PostgreSQL server: FATAL 1: Sorry, too many clients already in /usr/local/www/www.postgresql.org/idocs/opendb.php on line 3 Unable to access database -- Dave Cramer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cramer Consulting ---(end of broadcast)