Re: [HACKERS] Outline for PostgreSQL book

From: Bruce Momjian <maillist(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Oliver Elphick <olly(at)lfix(dot)co(dot)uk>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org>, PostgreSQL-documentation <docs(at)postgreSQL(dot)org>
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Outline for PostgreSQL book
Date: 1999-10-12 20:56:04
Message-ID: 199910122056.QAA09210@candle.pha.pa.us
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> 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?

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