[DOCS] Installation tutorial should be much more simple for newbies

2014-04-06 Thread Nikolay Samokhvalov
Hi there. This is a question that I wanted to raise for a long time. For years, from many people I've heard *many* times that PostgreSQL docs are complicated for those who are just starting to use Postgres (or even databases in general). Recently, again, I had a couple of conversations with poss

[DOCS] More clearly on XML namespaces inside xpath function

2010-06-04 Thread Nikolay Samokhvalov
Explain how to deal with XML namespaces inside the "xpath" function (especially about "default" namespaces, what is really unclear at first glance). Index: func.sgml === RCS file: /projects/cvsroot/pgsql/doc/src/sgml/func.sgml,v retr

[DOCS] Current docs are too comlicated for new Postgre users; thoughts on improvement

2008-12-25 Thread Nikolay Samokhvalov
/ - short version of installation from sources; - initdb process; - initial configuration on different platforms. I believe that this question is one of the most important when we are thinking how to grow user base. Thoughts? -- Sincerely yours, Nikolay Samokhvalov Postgresmen LLC, http:/

Re: [DOCS] Russian FAQ page charset problem

2008-09-15 Thread Nikolay Samokhvalov
"? -- Sincerely yours, Nikolay Samokhvalov -- Sent via pgsql-docs mailing list ([email protected]) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-docs

[DOCS] Russian FAQ page charset problem

2008-09-12 Thread Nikolay Samokhvalov
atter). -- Sincerely yours, Nikolay Samokhvalov Postgresmen LLC, http://postgresmen.ru -- Sent via pgsql-docs mailing list ([email protected]) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-docs

[DOCS] Users comments don't migrate to docs for new version?

2007-06-06 Thread Nikolay Samokhvalov
I've just found (via google...) useful (for me) comments: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.0/interactive/sql-createaggregate.html -- I mean users comments under primary contents of the page. These comments were written for 8.0, but are useful for the current versions too. What we have is the situ

Re: [HACKERS] [DOCS] New XML section for documentation

2006-09-05 Thread Nikolay Samokhvalov
On 8/26/06, Peter Eisentraut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Bruce Momjian wrote: > I made it clear in the section that the XML syntax was being checked, > not validation against a schema. You want Check and Validation > sections? "Valid" and "well-formed" have very specific distinct meanings in XML