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