Re: [HACKERS] Contrib modules documentation online

Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>

To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

Cc: Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>, pgsql-docs@postgresql.org, Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org, Albert Cervera i Areny <albert@nan-tic.com>

Date: 2007-08-30T13:43:36Z

Lists: pgsql-hackers

Am Donnerstag, 30. August 2007 15:26 schrieb Tom Lane:
> I thought a large part of the desire was to improve the visibility of
> the contrib docs, ie, put the docs under the noses of people who have
> *not* installed or even heard of the modules.  So "it's not in the docs
> unless you installed it" seems counter to the point.

I thought the point was to make the extensibility features of PostgreSQL more 
usable so people would be more inclined to use them.  The assumption being 
that the problem is not finding things but the hesitation against 
using "unofficial" things.  Moving everything to the main blob of things 
seems to go against that idea.

So perhaps some market research is required to clarify the actual requirements 
and goals.

-- 
Peter Eisentraut
http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/