Re: postgresql book - practical or something newer?

On Feb 11, 2008, at 5:50 PM, Greg Smith wrote:

> On Tue, 5 Feb 2008, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 5 Feb 2008 23:07:37 -0500 (EST)
>> Greg Smith <gsmith@gregsmith.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Can anyone think of another place a community docs wiki could go at?
>>
>> CMD will host anything you need.
>
> Basically all it would take to get this off the ground is a host
> running PHP 5.0+ and PostgreSQL 8.1+ (with tsearch2) that the
> current Mediawiki distribution could be installed into; PHP 5.1 and
> PG 8.2 would be preferred.  The main install instructions are at
> http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Installing_MediaWiki and I
> know they're good because I fixed the parts that weren't when I
> last installed one of these.
>
> The main open question for initial post-install configuration is
> how to deal with edit privledges.  I think this one would be OK
> with letting anyone sign up for an account in an automated way,
> rather than requiring a human approval like the Developer's wiki
> does, but only allow registered accounts to edit.  That will give
> some defense against the spammers while not making life difficult
> for the person who just wants to submit something at random one day.

Also, a few volunteers to receive notifications of edits for some
basic QA just to make sure that what's added is correct.

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