Re: Local postgres manual

2023-11-03 Thread Bruce Momjian
On Fri, Nov 3, 2023 at 03:58:05PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > Ben Hancock 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 `

Re: Local postgres manual

2023-11-03 Thread Tom Lane
Ben Hancock 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 wha

Re: Local postgres manual

2023-11-03 Thread Ben Hancock
On 11/3/23 06:33, Bruce Momjian wrote: But sometimes it may be convenient to view the the manual for the version of Postgres that is on the system, right there. Does one exist? Well, that's a good question, and a new question for me. I poked though the doc makefile and it turns out that:

Re: Local postgres manual

2023-11-03 Thread Philip Semanchuk
> On Nov 3, 2023, at 9:45 AM, Bruce Momjian wrote: > > On Fri, Nov 3, 2023 at 09:39:46AM -0400, Philip Semanchuk wrote: >> >> In addition to Bruce Momjian’s suggestion, I’ll add that you can make an >> HTML version of the manual from the source code. This is what I use and it >> works grea

Re: Local postgres manual

2023-11-03 Thread jian he
i think Ben Hancock want something like https://en.cppreference.com/w/Cppreference:Archives

Re: Local postgres manual

2023-11-03 Thread Bruce Momjian
On Fri, Nov 3, 2023 at 09:39:46AM -0400, Philip Semanchuk wrote: > > > > On Nov 3, 2023, at 9:18 AM, Ben Hancock wrote: > > > > Hi all: > > > > Does Postgres come with a local, full version of the manual installed > > by default anywhere (i.e. akin to what is available on the website, but > >

Re: Local postgres manual

2023-11-03 Thread Philip Semanchuk
> On Nov 3, 2023, at 9:18 AM, Ben Hancock wrote: > > Hi all: > > Does Postgres come with a local, full version of the manual installed > by default anywhere (i.e. akin to what is available on the website, but > in man, info, or plain-text format)? When I invoke `man postgres`, I do > get a ve

Re: Local postgres manual

2023-11-03 Thread Bruce Momjian
On Fri, Nov 3, 2023 at 06:18:19AM -0700, Ben Hancock wrote: > Hi all: > > Does Postgres come with a local, full version of the manual installed > by default anywhere (i.e. akin to what is available on the website, but > in man, info, or plain-text format)? When I invoke `man postgres`, I do > get

Local postgres manual

2023-11-03 Thread Ben Hancock
Hi all: Does Postgres come with a local, full version of the manual installed by default anywhere (i.e. akin to what is available on the website, but in man, info, or plain-text format)? When I invoke `man postgres`, I do get a very useful - but limited - manual page, which has references to cha