PDF Documentation for 8.3?

At 2:56pm -0400 on Fri, 19 Sep 2008, Michelle Konzack wrote:

I was searching the site but there are no PDF's for 8.3 in format A4 or
do I missing something?

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/manuals/

Hmm, this page seems to advertise both US Letter and A4. A cursory
inspection suggests that the A4 document at least has larger pages and
less of them ...

Kevin

Kevin Hunter wrote:

At 2:56pm -0400 on Fri, 19 Sep 2008, Michelle Konzack wrote:

I was searching the site but there are no PDF's for 8.3 in format A4 or
do I missing something?

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/manuals/

Hmm, this page seems to advertise both US Letter and A4. A cursory
inspection suggests that the A4 document at least has larger pages and
less of them ...

First, I have been drinking so if this sounds stupid, blame the vodka
:). Second, A4 is larger than letter so it would have less pages would
it not?

Joshua D. Drake

Michelle Konzack schrieb:

Hello,

I am using Debian GNU/Linux Etch with PostgreSQL 8.1.11 and since the
next release of Debian will use 8.3 I am searching for documentation
which can be print out...

Ma last Printed version was "Practical PostgreSQL" from O'Reilly which
cover only 7.4.

I was searching the site but there are no PDF's for 8.3 in format A4 or
do I missing something?

Note: The american "Letter" format sucks, because I am printing
two A4 pages on ONE A4 side and with the "Letter" format
I get very huge borders...

Thanks, Greetings and nice Day/Evening
Michelle Konzack
Systemadministrator
24V Electronic Engineer
Tamay Dogan Network
Debian GNU/Linux Consultant

Hello,
what is wrong with this PDF?
http://www.postgresql.org/files/documentation/pdf/8.3/postgresql-8.3-A4.pdf

Greetings from Berlin
Sven Marcel Buchholz

At 1:50am -0400 on Sun, 21 Sep 2008, Joshua D. Drake wrote:

Kevin Hunter wrote:

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/manuals/

Hmm, this page seems to advertise both US Letter and A4. A cursory
inspection suggests that the A4 document at least has larger pages and
less of them ...

First, I have been drinking so if this sounds stupid, blame the vodka
:). Second, A4 is larger than letter so it would have less pages would
it not?

Exactly. :-) Just proposing that the A4 size was -- in fact -- A4, and
not US Letter set on a larger page.

Kevin

NOthing bad, except that a number of tables are actually unreadable and some
code example lines are going past the right margin.
Apart of this, I would say it's great documentation.

On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 08:56:50PM +0200, Michelle Konzack wrote:

Note: The american "Letter" format sucks, because I am printing
two A4 pages on ONE A4 side and with the "Letter" format
I get very huge borders...

I find the psnup command (part of psutils) useful here, I tend to use:

pdftops file.pdf - | psnup -2 -b-20 -m20 > file.ps

To print two pages per side and expand them so there's less wasted
space; the 20 is the size of the border.

I had a good look for tools that would run through the document to
automatically find the real paper size and scale it appropriately, but
couldn't find anything maybe a year ago. If anyone knows of anything
like this I'd be glad to know!

Sam

Am 2008-09-21 11:52:44, schrieb Sven Marcel Buchholz:

Hello,
what is wrong with this PDF?
http://www.postgresql.org/files/documentation/pdf/8.3/postgresql-8.3-A4.pdf

I was not able to download ANY PDFs

I am sitting here @home behind my TP570 and I am connected over GSM
(Bouygues Telecom) to the Internet and if I klick the PDF links, the
conection timed out.

Thanks, Greetings and nice Day/Evening
Michelle Konzack
Systemadministrator
24V Electronic Engineer
Tamay Dogan Network
Debian GNU/Linux Consultant

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At 4:12am -0400 on Wed, 24 Sep 2008, Michelle Konzack wrote:

http://www.postgresql.org/files/documentation/pdf/8.3/postgresql-8.3-A4.pdf

I was not able to download ANY PDFs

I am sitting here @home behind my TP570 and I am connected over GSM
(Bouygues Telecom) to the Internet and if I klick the PDF links, the
conection timed out.

Hmm, it works splendidly here (Chapel Hill, NC). I wonder if it's too
large for your particular network setup? It's more than 16 MB. Do you
have another network connection you could try?

You also might try getting it in chunks. I've found the 'wget -c <url>'
(or curl --continue) paradigm invaluable for downloading large files
over slow, inconsistent, or otherwise flaky networks.

Kevin