Tino Wildenhain <tino@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > Am Samstag, den 17.12.2005, 16:53 +0200 schrieb Andre Truter: >> I would be nice if the documentation could be online though, then I >> would not need to download the whole postgres source just to get the >> documentation for one small part. > This is understandable ;) But in this case not postgres peoples > fault. There is no reason a package manager should exclude parts > of the software at will. Actually, I don't think you can reasonably blame the Debian packager for having overlooked the fact that contrib/dblink has more documentation files besides its README. The PGDG RPM people overlooked that too, as did Red Hat (ie, me). Now that I look, tsearch2 has also adopted a nonstandard documentation layout. While we (the packagers) could fix this now that our attention has been called to it, I wonder whether the better plan wouldn't be to insist that dblink and tsearch2 fall into line with the rest of the contrib modules. At the very least we need a uniform convention for docs files so that packagers won't be playing catchup forever. regards, tom lane
