Re: [DOCS] Re: [HACKERS] Outline for PostgreSQL book

From: gravity <z(dot)nijmeyers(at)cable(dot)a2000(dot)nl>
To: Bruce Momjian <maillist(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>, 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: [DOCS] Re: [HACKERS] Outline for PostgreSQL book
Date: 1999-10-12 23:27:29
Message-ID: 4.1.19991013011938.00a80e50@mail.a2000.nl
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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.

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