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Re: [HACKERS] Outline for PostgreSQL book

Vince Vielhaber <vev@michvhf.com>

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From: Vince Vielhaber <vev@michvhf.com>
To: Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgreSQL.org>, PostgreSQL-documentation <docs@postgreSQL.org>, Oliver Elphick <olly@lfix.co.uk>
Date: 1999-10-12T21:18:11Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
On 12-Oct-99 Bruce Momjian wrote:
>> 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?

Not at this early stage.  Wait till it's further along.

Vince.
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