Re: pointing pgAdmin III to a pre-8.1 help file

["Dave Page" <dpage(at)vale-housing(dot)co(dot)uk>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: pgadmin-support-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org 
> [mailto:pgadmin-support-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org] On Behalf Of 
> George Pavlov
> Sent: 24 January 2006 16:56
> To: pgadmin-support(at)postgresql(dot)org
> Subject: [pgadmin-support] pointing pgAdmin III to a pre-8.1 help file
> 
> This is sort of an enhancement idea: currently if you run pgAdmin III
> its help files by default assume an 8.1 PG, which is a bit confusing,
> because one could be (as I am) administering/connecting to 
> some pre-8.1
> servers through pgAdmin III. It would be quite nice if the help files
> were either sensitive to the version of the underlying server 
> (when the
> ? is pressed) or at least allowed for choosing which help-set to use
> when help is invoked (just add nodes for "PostgreSQL 8.0.5
> Documentation", etc.)

The problem with that is that the PG docs are a major part of the size
of the whole package - adding 8.0, 7.4, 7.3 etc. would *vastly* increase
the size of pgAdmin.

> I think the best one can currently do (and please correct me if I am
> wrong) is to swap the *.CHM from an older version of pgAdmin (but then
> you lose the 8.1 help, so not really good for a mixed-version
> environment).

There is another option - under File -> Options, you can set "SQL help
site" to a directory or website cotaining the PG docs of whatever
version you like. You might find that some pages then break of course -
for example, hit Help on the Roles dialog and you'll get an error if
you've selected docs < 8.1.

Regards, Dave.