Re: [Postgres-xc-developers] RPM Packaging XC

[Koichi S. <koi...@gm...>]

2014-01-25 David E. Wheeler <da...@ju...>:
> On Jan 24, 2014, at 12:24 AM, Michael Meskes <me...@po...> wrote:
>
>> We haven't completely solved the coexistance part yet, but mainly due to time
>> constraints. What we do so far is only build those pieces of XC that are
>> different and rely on the PG packages for the rest.
>
> Really? You actually have RPMs that depend on Postgres, and add the XC functionality in a binary distribution?
>
>> As for the docs, I remember the clean target not removing the generated SGML
>> files. However, we do have the specific manpages in place and I do not remember
>> them needing any special treatment. But then I may have simply forgotton about
>> that one.
>
> I just didn't realize they were in doc-xc instead of doc.
>
>>> I need to maintain corresponding PG docs for work and for merge
>>> process, it's convenient to have XC docs in a different directory.
>>> Do you think original PG docs should not be a part of XC release?
>>
>> I think they have to be part of it. After all people might just install XC
>> without PG alongside it.
>
> But the XC docs include everything from the pg docs, no?

The source of the doc has everything.    Some descriptions about
non-supported features such as FDW are sgtripped from XC docs.

It is very simple to get them back though.

Internals of XC documentation will be found at
http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/postgres-xc/index.php?title=Reference_Manual

Regards;
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Koichi Suzuki

>
> Best,
>
> David
>
>