The following bug has been logged online:

Bug reference: 1986
Logged by: Jari Aalto
Email address: jari.aalto (AT) cante (DOT) net
PostgreSQL version: 8.0.4
Operating system: Windows 2000 sp 5
Description: Please include ONE BIG .txt and .HTML file in
*docs*.tar.gz
Details:

The postgreSQL documentation archive provides *.sgml sources. Please
consider also providing following files in the archive:

<postgresql-N.N>/doc/html/manual.html
<postgresql-N.N>/doc/html/manual.txt

This ONE BIG file will help loading it off-line to
a web browser (or editor *.txt), and to make quick searches on backward and
forward.

Jari

---------------------------(end of broadcast)---------------------------
TIP 6: explain analyze is your friend

Am Freitag, 21. Oktober 2005 17:31 schrieb Jari Aalto:
This wouldn't be hard to implement. Are others interested in this?

---------------------------(end of broadcast)---------------------------
TIP 4: Have you searched our list archives?

http://archives.postgresql.org

Peter Eisentraut <peter_e (AT) gmx (DOT) net> writes:
I'd object to bloating the tarball itself with two redundant copies of
the documentation ... especially on the basis of only one request.
But couldn't we make such a version available for separate download
by those who want it?

regards, tom lane

---------------------------(end of broadcast)---------------------------
TIP 5: don't forget to increase your free space map settings

The original bug talked about Windows - I'd just like to add that on
Windows we will already do this on 8.1, in the form of a CHM file.
That doesn't mean we shouldn't do sometihng for other platforms, though
;-)

//Magnus

---------------------------(end of broadcast)---------------------------
TIP 9: In versions below 8.0, the planner will ignore your desire to
choose an index scan if your joining column's datatypes do not
match

| Peter Eisentraut <peter_e AT gmx.net> writes:
Thanks fo taking this issue forward. It would increase the
archive much because html and text files compress extremely
well. The logical place for the documentation, is the "doc"
package that already includes FAQ.

Perhaps you meant to separate:

- pure source (*.sgml): *-doc-source.tar.gz
- generated files: *-doc-generated.tar.gz

Jari





---------------------------(end of broadcast)---------------------------
TIP 9: In versions below 8.0, the planner will ignore your desire to
choose an index scan if your joining column's datatypes do not
match

| > > This ONE BIG file will help loading it off-line to a web=20
If I mentioned Windows, that was a mistake. I was talking in general interest.

The *.chm file is no subtitute for good text editor with
excellent search capabilities like Emacs + M-x occur / C-s /
C-r with word grabbing and all other features. Emacs is
available to Win32 as well.

The BIG HTML file is user friendly for student classes,
where it it posisble to serch within the browser window with
"find" to demonstrate the various places.

The one HTML also servers as a Printer format.

Jari

---------------------------(end of broadcast)---------------------------
TIP 5: don't forget to increase your free space map settings