On Wed, Sep  5, 2012 at 09:33:35PM -0400, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> 
> On 09/05/2012 09:25 PM, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> >On Wed, Sep  5, 2012 at 09:56:32PM -0300, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> >>Excerpts from Tom Lane's message of miƩ sep 05 20:24:08 -0300 2012:
> >>>Andrew Dunstan <and...@dunslane.net> writes:
> >>>>The only reason there is a significant delay is that the administrators
> >>>>have chosen not to run the process more than once every 4 hours. That's
> >>>>a choice not dictated by the process they are using, but by other
> >>>>considerations concerning the machine it's being run on. Since I am not
> >>>>one of the admins and don't really want to take responsibility for it I
> >>>>am not going to second guess them. On the very rare occasions when I
> >>>>absolutely have to have the totally up to date docs I build them myself
> >>>>- it takes about 60 seconds on my modest hardware.
> >>>I think the argument for having a quick docs build service is not about
> >>>the time needed, but the need to have all the appropriate tools
> >>>installed.  While I can understand that argument for J Random Hacker,
> >>>I'm mystified why Bruce doesn't seem to have bothered to get a working
> >>>SGML toolset installed.  It's not like editing the docs is a one-shot
> >>>task for him.
> >>As far as I understand, Bruce's concern is not about seeing the docs
> >>built himself, but having an HTML copy published somewhere that he can
> >>point people to, after applying some patch.  To me, that's a perfectly
> >>legitimate reason to want to have them quickly.
> >Correct.  I have always had a working SGML toolset.  If we are not going
> >to have the developer site run more often, I will just go back to
> >setting up my own public doc build, like I used to do.  I removed mine
> >when the official one was more current/reliable --- if that has changed,
> >I will return to my old setup, and publish my own URL for users to
> >verify doc changes.
> 
> How often do you want? After all,
> <http://developer.postgresql.org/docs/postgres/index.html> is
> presumably going to keep pointing to where it now points.

Well, the old code checked every five minutes, and it rebuilt in 4
minutes, so there was a max of 10 minutes delay.

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