Joshua D. Drake wrote:


I find this peculiar, considering this:

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.0/static/tutorial-start.html

Now, perhaps the author's conclusion is just bogus but can anyone think of
better ways in which we could ease people into PostgreSQL?
I think more than likely it just isn't obvious where the tutorial is.
I just went to the website, I clicked documentation, no immediate
mention of the tutorial. Then I click 8.0, where is the tutorial?

Oh... it is in the beginning of the 1300 pages of documentation.

I think that the documentation should be split (back out) into separate books -- tutorial, reference, release notes, etc. It is too unwieldy as it is. The release notes at least should be separate -- I was rather pissed off when I discovered that what I had printed out included changes for releases I had no interest in. If the documents have been amalgamated to suit a publisher then I feel even more agrieved -- I resent having to pay for padding and resent the waste of paper. With a duplex printer the documentation fills two binders; printed simplex it would be more like four!

Andrew Ford
ford-mason.co.uk

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