Re: Documentation needs significant improvement
Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Chris Johnson <chris@chaska.com>
Cc: pgsql-general@postgresql.org
Date: 2003-01-25T05:46:32Z
Lists: pgsql-general
Chris Johnson <chris@chaska.com> writes: > I just wasted 20 minutes or so trying to re-figure out how the heck to > create the first user. Frankly, the documentation between the step of > installing the binaries and the step of doing useful stuff with the > database sucks. Criticism in the form of patches would be the most helpful ;-). I hear your pain, but it's not clear to me exactly what to fix where. For example: > * The web formatting of said documentation is hosed. I'm guessing it's > a result of some conversion process from a former web layout. Some > pages flow into resized windows just fine, as all good HTML documents > should. Others have pre-formatted monospace-font lines with missing > line breaks resulting in ridiculously wide pages which have to be > scrolled horizontally -- which makes them near unusable. I use the HTML docs all the time, and it's been awhile since I saw any pages that rendered that badly. *Exactly which* pages are you complaining about? What browser are you looking at them with? regards, tom lane