Re: Suggestion on reorganizing functions

On Aug 9, 2004, at 8:20 PM, Tom Lane wrote:

> David Fetter <david@fetter.org> writes:
>> I think Jeff's original point was that he wanted some kind of index
>> for all functions, not just ones you already know how to classify.
>
> I thought his point was that he didn't fully know how the docs have
> already classified functions, and therefore didn't know which page to
> look on to find a given one.  This seems a legitimate gripe to me, and
> one that can be cured with a more complete index.
>

Exactly.

or if you are trying to remember a function - say "Oh whats that thing?
Colace? Coerce? [scrolls] Ahh! Coalesce!"

The trouble seems to be getting that list automatically generated from
the existing SGML.

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