Re: [PATCHES] docs done Re: [HACKERS] LIBPQ patches ...

Applied, or did I already say that?


> * Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> [000109 08:18] wrote:
> > Don Baccus <dhogaza@pacifier.com> writes:
> > > At 05:27 PM 1/8/00 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> > >> I also object strongly to the lack of documentation.
> > 
> > > ... I know there are some folks who aren't native-english speakers, so
> > > perhaps you don't want to require that the implementor of such patches
> > > provide the final documentation wording.  But the information should
> > > be there and spelled out in a form that can be very easily moved to
> > > the docs.
> > 
> > Oh, absolutely.  Thomas, our master of the docs, has always had the
> > policy of "give me some words, I'll take care of formatting and
> > editing..."
> > 
> > I was probably too harsh on Alfred last night, since in fact his code
> > was fairly well commented, and some minimal doco could have been
> > extracted from the routine headers.  But on a change like this, I think
> > some paragraphs of coherent high-level explanation are needed: what it
> > does, when and why you'd use it.  I didn't see that anywhere...
> 
> Here's the revised patch, it includes sgml docs and changes to
> ensure that old style connections behave the way they are expected
> to:
> 

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