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  1. Re: DOCS - Add introductory paragraph to Getting Started chapter

    Dapeng Wang <wangdp20191008@gmail.com> — 2026-04-08T01:05:41Z

    Hi,

Following up on Tom's suggestion that Chapters 2 and 3 of the
tutorial likewise lack introductory paragraphs, I've attached a
patch that adds them.

Chapter 2 (The SQL Language) gets a paragraph summarizing tables,
queries, joins, aggregates, and data modification.

Chapter 3 (Advanced Features) gets a paragraph summarizing views,
foreign keys, transactions, window functions, and inheritance.

Regards,
Dapeng Wang

  2. Re: DOCS - Add introductory paragraph to Getting Started chapter

    Andreas Karlsson <andreas@proxel.se> — 2026-04-09T12:55:34Z

    On 4/8/26 3:05 AM, Dapeng Wang wrote:
> Following up on Tom's suggestion that Chapters 2 and 3 of the
> tutorial likewise lack introductory paragraphs, I've attached a
> patch that adds them.
Thanks for the contribution!

In the future use "Reply all" and figure out why your email client did 
not add a proper Reply-To header.

-- 
Andreas Karlsson
Percona

  3. Re: DOCS - Add introductory paragraph to Getting Started chapter

    Dapeng Wang <wangdp20191008@gmail.com> — 2026-04-10T00:36:55Z

    Thanks Andreas! Noted - I didn't have the original thread
in my mailbox at the time, but I'm subscribed now so future
replies will thread properly.

Regards,
Dapeng Wang

Andreas Karlsson <andreas@proxel.se> 于2026年4月9日周四 20:55写道：

> On 4/8/26 3:05 AM, Dapeng Wang wrote:
> > Following up on Tom's suggestion that Chapters 2 and 3 of the
> > tutorial likewise lack introductory paragraphs, I've attached a
> > patch that adds them.
> Thanks for the contribution!
>
> In the future use "Reply all" and figure out why your email client did
> not add a proper Reply-To header.
>
> --
> Andreas Karlsson
> Percona
>
>

  4. Re: DOCS - Add introductory paragraph to Getting Started chapter

    Andreas Karlsson <andreas@proxel.se> — 2026-04-10T00:40:33Z

    On 4/10/26 2:36 AM, Dapeng Wang wrote:
> Thanks Andreas! Noted - I didn't have the original thread
> in my mailbox at the time, but I'm subscribed now so future
> replies will thread properly.

I see! Then the general recommendation is to use the re-send email 
button in our mailing list archives. I know it was buggy some time ago 
but I think it has been fixed now.

Andreas

  5. Re: DOCS - Add introductory paragraph to Getting Started chapter

    Dapeng Wang <wangdp20191008@gmail.com> — 2026-04-10T00:47:04Z

    Good to know, thanks! I'll use the resend email button next time.


Andreas Karlsson <andreas@proxel.se> 于2026年4月10日周五 08:40写道：

> On 4/10/26 2:36 AM, Dapeng Wang wrote:
> > Thanks Andreas! Noted - I didn't have the original thread
> > in my mailbox at the time, but I'm subscribed now so future
> > replies will thread properly.
>
> I see! Then the general recommendation is to use the re-send email
> button in our mailing list archives. I know it was buggy some time ago
> but I think it has been fixed now.
>
> Andreas
>
>

  6. Re: DOCS - Add introductory paragraph to Getting Started chapter

    Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> — 2026-04-10T00:47:37Z

    Andreas Karlsson <andreas@proxel.se> writes:
> On 4/10/26 2:36 AM, Dapeng Wang wrote:
>> Thanks Andreas! Noted - I didn't have the original thread
>> in my mailbox at the time, but I'm subscribed now so future
>> replies will thread properly.

> I see! Then the general recommendation is to use the re-send email 
> button in our mailing list archives. I know it was buggy some time ago 
> but I think it has been fixed now.

Yeah, I use that all the time when I want to reply to some old
thread that I no longer have locally.  It's been flaky once or
twice for me, but normally it works fine.

A more pressing problem is that this iteration of the thread
isn't attached to the CF entry; you need to do that so that
it shows up as having current traffic.  Right now,

https://commitfest.postgresql.org/patch/6506/

still shows the 19-Feb patch as current.

			regards, tom lane

  7. Re: DOCS - Add introductory paragraph to Getting Started chapter

    Dapeng Wang <wangdp20191008@gmail.com> — 2026-04-10T01:03:54Z

    Done - I've attached the new thread to the CF entry.

Regards,
Dapeng Wang

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> 于2026年4月10日周五 08:47写道：

> Andreas Karlsson <andreas@proxel.se> writes:
> > On 4/10/26 2:36 AM, Dapeng Wang wrote:
> >> Thanks Andreas! Noted - I didn't have the original thread
> >> in my mailbox at the time, but I'm subscribed now so future
> >> replies will thread properly.
>
> > I see! Then the general recommendation is to use the re-send email
> > button in our mailing list archives. I know it was buggy some time ago
> > but I think it has been fixed now.
>
> Yeah, I use that all the time when I want to reply to some old
> thread that I no longer have locally.  It's been flaky once or
> twice for me, but normally it works fine.
>
> A more pressing problem is that this iteration of the thread
> isn't attached to the CF entry; you need to do that so that
> it shows up as having current traffic.  Right now,
>
> https://commitfest.postgresql.org/patch/6506/
>
> still shows the 19-Feb patch as current.
>
>                         regards, tom lane
>

  8. Re: DOCS - Add introductory paragraph to Getting Started chapter

    Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org> — 2026-04-15T18:03:55Z

    On 08.04.26 03:05, Dapeng Wang wrote:
> Following up on Tom's suggestion that Chapters 2 and 3 of the
> tutorial likewise lack introductory paragraphs, I've attached a
> patch that adds them.

In each of these chapters, the first section is titled "Introduction" 
and the first sentence introduces the chapter.  So the text you are 
proposing to add here appears to be redundant with that.