Re: Pushing btree opclass implementor's docs to the main SGML docs

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com>
Cc: pgsql-docs@lists.postgresql.org
Date: 2018-02-06T20:26:05Z
Lists: pgsql-docs
Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
> On 2/5/18 18:51, Tom Lane wrote:
>> So I can see two ways to approach this: add two new subsections at the end
>> of xindex.sgml, or create a new chapter about b-trees in Part VII
>> ("Internals") to go beside the existing ones about the more recently added
>> index types.  The latter would make more sense if anyone was inspired to
>> write something comparable in length to the existing per-index-type
>> chapters.  But I'm not volunteering to do that, so if it's a chapter it'd
>> be a mighty thin one to start with.

> xindex seems better to me.

Oh, I already did it as a chapter.  I'm inclined to think that somebody
will want to write something more there someday, and anyway it's already
longer than some existing chapters ...

			regards, tom lane


Commits

  1. Doc: move info for btree opclass implementors into main documentation.