Re: Local postgres manual
Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Ben Hancock <lists@benghancock.com>
Cc: pgsql-general@lists.postgresql.org
Date: 2023-11-03T19:58:05Z
Lists: pgsql-general
Ben Hancock <lists@benghancock.com> writes: > I will say that, as the manual is quite large, a local GNU Info version > would be great to be able to traverse different sections, etc, more > easily. If that doesn't exist already, I wonder if a tool like `pandoc` > could be employed to generate that. That's exactly what the postgres.txt file Bruce mentioned is. # single-page text postgres.txt: postgres.html $(PANDOC) -t plain -o $@ $< These variant doc forms aren't terribly well (or at all) documented, but the doc/src/sgml Makefile knows how to create a number of them. regards, tom lane