Re: A smaller default postgresql.conf

David Fetter wrote:

> And we're back to man pages and CHM files.

So, did anyone else try to generate man pages? I did "make man" and ran
into several issues.

The first is that D2MDIR needs to be specified manually. I assume this
is how everyone does it, so I did that.

The second is that the Perl script as packaged by Debian doesn't work --
it is missing a handful of HTML entities, and it errors out before
generating anything. I had to patch it thusly:

*** docbook2man-spec.pl.orig 2008-08-21 08:56:20.000000000 -0400
--- docbook2man-spec.pl 2008-08-19 18:13:22.000000000 -0400
***************
*** 1177,1182 ****
--- 1177,1192 ----
man_sgml('|[copy ]|', '(C)');
man_sgml('|[nbsp ]|', '\~');
man_sgml('|[thinsp]|', '\~');
+ man_sgml('|[mdash ]|', '--');
+ man_sgml('|[pi ]|', 'pi');
+ man_sgml('|[ntilde]|', 'ñ');
+ man_sgml('|[aacute]|', 'á');
+ man_sgml('|[oacute]|', 'ó');
+ man_sgml('|[bull ]|', 'X');
+ man_sgml('|[quot ]|', '"');
+ man_sgml('|[scaron]|', 'š');
+ man_sgml('|[oslash]|', 'ø');
+ man_sgml('|[ouml ]|', 'ö');

#
# Default handlers (uncomment these if needed). Right now, these are set

The third problem I ran into is that manpages that are supposed to go
into the "l" section do not; the filename ends in a dot:

$ ls | tail -10
SPI_saveplan.
SPI_scroll_cursor_fetch.
SPI_scroll_cursor_move.
START TRANSACTION.
TRUNCATE.
UNLISTEN.
UPDATE.
VACUUM.
VALUES.
version.sgml

The makefile is passing "--section l" so I'm not sure what's going wrong
here.

And lastly, I couldn't figure out what decides which manpages are
generated, to make it pick the text we want to publish.

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