Re: Additional Chapter for Tutorial

Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com>

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com>
To: Jürgen Purtz <juergen@purtz.de>, pgsql-docs@lists.postgresql.org
Date: 2020-09-10T16:26:59Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers, pgsql-docs
On 2020-09-02 09:04, Jürgen Purtz wrote:
> On 01.09.20 23:30, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>> It is mostly advanced low-level information that is irrelevant for
>> someone starting up,
> That applies only to the VACUUM chapter. VACUUM and AUTOVACUUM are
> controlled by a lot of parameters. Therefor the current documentation
> concerning the two mechanism spreads the description across different
> pages (20.4, 25.1, VACUUM command). Because of the structure of our
> documentation that's ok. But we should have a summary page somewhere -
> not necessarily in the tutorial.

There is probably room for improvement, but the section numbers you 
mention are not about VACUUM, AFAICT, so I can't really comment on what 
you have in mind.

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Peter Eisentraut              http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
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