Re: Publishing Postgres Manual as a book

2023-03-22 Thread Tom Lane
Erik Wienhold writes: > On 23/03/2023 04:34 CET Ian Lawrence Barwick wrote: >> Also not a lawyer, but the full sentence is: >>> Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software and its >>> documentation for any purpose, without fee, and without a written agreement >>> is >>> hereby

Re: Publishing Postgres Manual as a book

2023-03-22 Thread Erik Wienhold
> On 23/03/2023 04:34 CET Ian Lawrence Barwick wrote: > > 2023年3月23日(木) 12:23 Erik Wienhold : > > > > > On 23/03/2023 02:35 CET Siddharth Jain wrote: > > > > > > The Postgres Manual is available online as a PDF but I think having it in > > > a > > > book form could be useful to some. > > > > > >

Re: Publishing Postgres Manual as a book

2023-03-22 Thread Ian Lawrence Barwick
2023年3月23日(木) 12:34 Ian Lawrence Barwick : > > 2023年3月23日(木) 12:23 Erik Wienhold : > > > > > On 23/03/2023 02:35 CET Siddharth Jain wrote: > > > > > > The Postgres Manual is available online as a PDF but I think having it in > > > a > > > book form could be useful to some. > > > > > > Is it legal

Re: Publishing Postgres Manual as a book

2023-03-22 Thread Ian Lawrence Barwick
2023年3月23日(木) 12:23 Erik Wienhold : > > > On 23/03/2023 02:35 CET Siddharth Jain wrote: > > > > The Postgres Manual is available online as a PDF but I think having it in a > > book form could be useful to some. > > > > Is it legal for me to publish the manual as a book? > > IANAL, but I'd say yes

Re: Publishing Postgres Manual as a book

2023-03-22 Thread Erik Wienhold
> On 23/03/2023 02:35 CET Siddharth Jain wrote: > > The Postgres Manual is available online as a PDF but I think having it in a > book form could be useful to some. > > Is it legal for me to publish the manual as a book? IANAL, but I'd say yes as long as you don't take a fee. The legal notice of

Publishing Postgres Manual as a book

2023-03-22 Thread Siddharth Jain
Hello, The Postgres Manual is available online as a PDF but I think having it in a book form could be useful to some. Is it legal for me to publish the manual as a book? I cannot find any email address on PostgreSQL website to ask such questions. This is the closest mailing list I could find. S.

Re: Seeming contradiction in 22.1

2023-03-22 Thread David G. Johnston
On Wed, Mar 22, 2023 at 3:41 PM maja zaloznik wrote: > My issue is that - at least as far as i can recall - the default superuser > was already named postgres > There is no compiled-in default for the name of the bootstrap superuser. It is chosen during initdb using the algorithm described (i.e.

Re: Seeming contradiction in 22.1

2023-03-22 Thread David G. Johnston
On Monday, March 20, 2023, PG Doc comments form wrote: > The following documentation comment has been logged on the website: > > Page: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/15/database-roles.html > Description: > > In chapter 22.1 the following text seems to imply the role will have "the > same name as

Seeming contradiction in 22.1

2023-03-22 Thread PG Doc comments form
The following documentation comment has been logged on the website: Page: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/15/database-roles.html Description: In chapter 22.1 the following text seems to imply the role will have "the same name as the user that initialised" it and also the "role will be named postg