Re: [Pgsqlrpms-hackers] Re: [GENERAL] DBlink documentation

2006-01-03 Thread Tom Lane
Joe Conway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Tom Lane wrote: >> It's not only the downstream packagers that have missed these: the >> Makefiles don't install them either. >> >> It'd be a good idea to settle on what we want the installed file layout >> to be --- do we need to create subdirectories unde

Re: [Pgsqlrpms-hackers] Re: [GENERAL] DBlink documentation

2006-01-03 Thread Joe Conway
Tom Lane wrote: Joe Conway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: I'm happy to lump all the docs back into the README if that's what you want, but I split it up in the first place because it was getting very long. No, I'm not really proposing that we force all contrib modules to have only a README. I'm

Re: [Pgsqlrpms-hackers] Re: [GENERAL] DBlink documentation

2005-12-19 Thread Jim C. Nasby
On Sat, Dec 17, 2005 at 03:47:54PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote: > It'd be a good idea to settle on what we want the installed file layout > to be --- do we need to create subdirectories under {prefix}/doc to > forestall name conflicts? README is probably fine for most of what's in contrib, but for other

Re: [GENERAL] DBlink documentation

2005-12-17 Thread Karl O. Pinc
On 12/17/2005 08:33:02 AM, Russ Brown wrote: Is the documentation not available online somewhere? There is always the CVS web interface: http://developer.postgresql.org/cvsweb.cgi/pgsql/ Karl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Free Software: "You don't pay back, you pay forward." -- Rober

Re: [Pgsqlrpms-hackers] Re: [GENERAL] DBlink documentation

2005-12-17 Thread Bruce Momjian
Tom Lane wrote: > Joe Conway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I'm happy to lump all the docs back into the README if that's what you > > want, but I split it up in the first place because it was getting very long. > > No, I'm not really proposing that we force all contrib modules to have > only a

Re: [Pgsqlrpms-hackers] Re: [GENERAL] DBlink documentation

2005-12-17 Thread Tom Lane
Joe Conway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm happy to lump all the docs back into the README if that's what you > want, but I split it up in the first place because it was getting very long. No, I'm not really proposing that we force all contrib modules to have only a README. I'm just annoyed by

Re: [Pgsqlrpms-hackers] Re: [GENERAL] DBlink documentation

2005-12-17 Thread Joe Conway
Tom Lane wrote: 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). Well, in my own defense, I pointed out the

Re: [GENERAL] DBlink documentation

2005-12-17 Thread Tom Lane
Tino Wildenhain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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

Re: [GENERAL] DBlink documentation

2005-12-17 Thread Andre Truter
On Sat, 2005-12-17 at 17:09 +0100, Tino Wildenhain wrote: > > This is understandable ;) But in this case not postgres peoples > fault. Yes, I realise it is not the fault of the postgres people and I did not intend to make it sound like that. I am a bit disappointed that the rpm package that co

Re: [GENERAL] DBlink documentation

2005-12-17 Thread Tino Wildenhain
Am Samstag, den 17.12.2005, 16:53 +0200 schrieb Andre Truter: ... > Thanks, I'll download the Posgres source then. > > 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. Thi

Re: [GENERAL] DBlink documentation

2005-12-17 Thread Andre Truter
On Sat, 2005-12-17 at 14:53 +, Greg Sabino Mullane wrote: > > Is the documentation not available online somewhere? > > Quick version for you: > > http://www.gtsm.com/dblink/ > > Great! This is exactly what I want. Thanks Greg! -- Andre Truter | Software Engineer | Registered Linux user

Re: [GENERAL] DBlink documentation

2005-12-17 Thread Greg Sabino Mullane
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > Is the documentation not available online somewhere? Quick version for you: http://www.gtsm.com/dblink/ - -- Greg Sabino Mullane [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Key: 0x14964AC8 200512170951 http://biglumber.com/x/web?pk=2529DF6AB8F79407E94445B4BC9B9067149

Re: [GENERAL] DBlink documentation

2005-12-17 Thread Andre Truter
On Sat, 2005-12-17 at 09:21 -0500, Douglas McNaught wrote: > Andre Truter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Sat, 2005-12-17 at 07:04 -0700, Leonel Nunez wrote: > > > >> download the source for your PostgreSQL version unpackit > >> and check onthe contrib/dblink dir > >> > > > > Yes

Re: [GENERAL] DBlink documentation

2005-12-17 Thread Douglas McNaught
"Russ Brown" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is the documentation not available online somewhere? For the stuff in 'contrib', I don't think so. Might be a good project for someone. :) -Doug ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postm

Re: [GENERAL] DBlink documentation

2005-12-17 Thread Russ Brown
On Sat, 17 Dec 2005 08:21:29 -0600, Douglas McNaught <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Andre Truter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: On Sat, 2005-12-17 at 07:04 -0700, Leonel Nunez wrote: download the source for your PostgreSQL version unpackit and check onthe contrib/dblink dir Yes, th

Re: [GENERAL] DBlink documentation

2005-12-17 Thread Douglas McNaught
Andre Truter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sat, 2005-12-17 at 07:04 -0700, Leonel Nunez wrote: > >> download the source for your PostgreSQL version unpackit >> and check onthe contrib/dblink dir >> > > Yes, that is what I have been trying to do, but where do I download the > dblink

Re: [GENERAL] DBlink documentation

2005-12-17 Thread Andre Truter
On Sat, 2005-12-17 at 07:04 -0700, Leonel Nunez wrote: > download the source for your PostgreSQL version unpackit > and check onthe contrib/dblink dir > Yes, that is what I have been trying to do, but where do I download the dblink source from? -- Andre Truter | Software Engineer

Re: [GENERAL] DBlink documentation

2005-12-17 Thread Leonel Nunez
Andre Truter wrote: On Sat, 2005-12-17 at 06:20 -0700, Leonel Nunez wrote: It's on the contrib package No, unfortunately the SUSE people did not include it in the contrib package. or in the contrib dir if you installed from source Installed from rpm package. I have se

Re: [GENERAL] DBlink documentation

2005-12-17 Thread Andre Truter
On Sat, 2005-12-17 at 06:20 -0700, Leonel Nunez wrote: > > It's on the contrib package No, unfortunately the SUSE people did not include it in the contrib package. > or in the contrib dir if you installed from source > Installed from rpm package. I have searched for the dblink source to ge

Re: [GENERAL] DBlink documentation

2005-12-17 Thread Leonel Nunez
Andre Truter wrote: Where do I find documentation for using dblink? I am running PostgreSQL 8.03 on SuSE 9.3 and I installed the postgresql-contrib package, but it only includes the README for dblink, which only lists the functions, but it does not include any information on how to use it. For