Re: Additional Chapter for Tutorial

On Fri, Oct 23, 2020 at 6:58 AM Jürgen Purtz <juergen@purtz.de> wrote:

> Creating such a chapter in "VII. Internals" will increase the existing
> chapter numbers 50 - 71, which may lead to some confusion. On the other
> hand the content can possibly be applied to all supported PG versions at
> the same time, which will lead to a consistent behavior. Extending one of
> the existing chapters won't work because all of them handle their own
> topic, eg.: "50. Overview of PostgreSQL Internals" (misleading title?)
> focuses on the handling of SQL statements from parsing to execution.
>
> What are your thoughts?
>
v14 has already added a new chapter, installation from binaries.  It was
not back-patched.  To my knowledge no one brought up these points - numbers
changing or back-patching the new material.  I don't see that this
enhancement needs to be treated any differently.

David J.