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Re: [HACKERS] Outline for PostgreSQL book

Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us>

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From: Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us>
To: Oliver Elphick <olly@lfix.co.uk>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgreSQL.org>, PostgreSQL-documentation <docs@postgreSQL.org>
Date: 1999-10-12T20:56:04Z
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> It looks good; I have a comment on the order of chapters, however.
> 
> I suggest that Installlation goes in an Appendix.  More and more, people
> will be coming to machines that already have software installed, or have
> them installed as packages (.rpm or .deb).

> 
> Installation is the administrator's job, and not of interest to `normal'
> users, so it should not be placed in the book as if every user had to do
> it.

Done.  Certainly better to get that at the end.  That chapter is going
to be a mess to look at.

New version attached.  No PDF version this time.  Do people like PDF?

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