Re: [DOCS] Re: [HACKERS] Outline for PostgreSQL book
gravity@dds.nl
From: gravity <gravity@dds.nl>
To: Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us>,
Oliver Elphick <olly@lfix.co.uk>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>, PostgreSQL-documentation <docs@postgresql.org>
Date: 1999-10-12T23:41:27Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
At 16:56 12-10-99 -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote: > 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. I agree on this particular item BUT... wouldn't it be nice if the book would be a 'hard' book? there already are lots of database tutorials, introductions to sql etc. focus on db developers, go into (maybe not that deep) how and why postgres is/was developed the way it is/was. 'hard' books are a 'good thing' (tm) and it would be too bad if this would become another entry-level booklet. OTOH an entry-level book is probably required to get as big a user-base as possible.