Re: Pgadmin man page

On Wed, 26 Jul 2000, Bruce Momjian wrote:

> > > > > Why is there a pgadmin man page?
> > > Well, there is *no* pgadmin. At least on Unix, and man pages only exist on
> > > Unix.
> > > It's also kind of strange that we're shipping documentation for a program
> > > we're not actually shipping, when that program might better ship its own
> > > documentation. It's certainly nice to mention related products, but maybe
> > > a reference page is not the most appropriate form (especially since the
> > > reference page at hand is more like an advertisement anyway).
> >
> > I wanted to have reference pages for useful programs. You are right, it
> > shouldn't be in the man page list (which is just specified in
> > sgml/Makefile).
> >
> > The advert character of the page is due to my picking up text from
> > somewhere and stuffing it in to the page. afaik it is the only example
> > of a program in the docs which is not in the basic distro, but I'd like
> > to have some way to tie in to other apps and doc sets. Perhaps we should
> > put some text into the intro for the reference section?
>
> Isn't reference to other programs something that belongs on the web
> site, not in our docs.
>
>

At least a blurb on the interfaces page.

Vince.
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