Re: [DOCS] Empty index in A4 version of 8.1 PDF documentation

2006-10-21 Thread Tom Lane
Alvaro Herrera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > It would be neat to have some Makefile trickery to be able to detect > that the just-finished run was done without an index entries file and > and repeat the process in that case. [ shrug... ] The standard solution is to run the build twice, no matter w

Re: [DOCS] Empty index in A4 version of 8.1 PDF documentation

2006-10-21 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Alvaro Herrera wrote: > That's probably because the A4 version got generated first and > created the index entries file as part of the process, while the > Letter version was able to reuse the file from the A4 run. The index entries are only generated as a side effect of HTML builds. -- Peter Ei

[DOCS] "Fast Forward" links don't seem to be correct

2006-10-21 Thread Tom Lane
If you go to a regular, non-chapter-heading page in the PG docs, such as http://developer.postgresql.org/pgdocs/postgres/extend-type-system.html and try the "Fast Backward" link, it goes to that chapter's heading page, which seems reasonable. But the "Fast Forward" link points to the same place.

Re: [DOCS] Empty index in A4 version of 8.1 PDF documentation

2006-10-21 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Benno Puetz wrote: > I just downloaded the current documentation PDFs and found that the A4 > version has no index whereas the US version does ... That's probably because the A4 version got generated first and created the index entries file as part of the process, while the Letter version was abl

Re: [DOCS] Outdated note

2006-10-21 Thread Tom Lane
Alvaro Herrera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 4.1.2.1. String Constants, the following note appears: > Note: While ordinary strings now support C-style backslash escapes, > future versions will generate warnings for such usage and eventually > treat backslashes as literal characters to be