On 23/3/06 20:12, "David Fetter" <david@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, Mar 23, 2006 at 07:00:13PM +0100, Jim Nasby wrote: >> On Mar 23, 2006, at 4:08 PM, Oisin Glynn wrote: >> >>> I just discovered that the comments from 8.0 had the answer I was >>> looking for but these comments are not in the 8.1 docs. Should the >>> comments be rolled forward as new versions are created? Or if valid >>> comments added to the docs themselves? >>> >>> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.1/interactive/sql-copy.html >>> >>> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.0/interactive/sql-copy.html >> >> No, comments don't roll forward. > > ...and it's unlikely that they will, now or later, without somebody > whose whole job is to monitor those comments and make patches. > > I'd like to make a Modest Proposalâ?¢: Let's take down the interactive > documents and, in their place, put up a request that doc patches be > sent to -docs. > > What say? I say no, because whilst some comments should (and do) end up in the docs, many are simply useful real-world code examples and related information that people post. It's useful stuff, but would clutter the docs. Regards, Dave.
