Greg Smith wrote: > Bruce Momjian wrote: > > That is an excellent idea, not only for replication, but there are > > probably other wiki pages that we should link to from our main docs. I > > will go through the wiki, find appropriate pages, and add links from our > > docs. > > > > Please suggest what those pages are before you do the doc edits. While > we can fix stuff with redirection, in some cases it would be better to > create a specific destination page for the documentation to point to, > with a stable URL from the beginning. For example, the last specific > page we would want to point the docs toward is > http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Replication%2C_Clustering%2C_and_Connection_Pooling > > , which is ridiculous in length (I regret creating the page like that), > going through a major revision right now (parallel descriptions being > worked out at http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Clustering ), and just > generally a mess. > > I'd rather see (and will create) specific pages created for Replication > and Pooling if we want something the docs can be pointed towards. As an > example, I already created one such page but haven't filled in the > details for the Nagios etc. doc updates Bruce already inserted: > http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Monitoring. > > It's really obvious that PostgreSQL installs in the real world benefit > from adding a number of non-core tools. It's inappropriate and > overwhelming to consider documenting them, or even listing them all, in > the core docs. It's also terrible that we don't make it easier for > people to find those, and point out the seams where it's expected a > third party package will fill in on something that's been punted out of > core but is done well outside of it. The wiki is a reasonable place to > assemble both a highlights directory of such packages and associated > documentation, all in one spot.
OK, let me troll around and find too pages. Is there a good way to review all the useful ones? -- Bruce Momjian <[email protected]> http://momjian.us EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com -- Sent via pgsql-docs mailing list ([email protected]) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-docs
