| From: | gravity <gravity(at)dds(dot)nl> |
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| 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 23:41:27 |
| Message-ID: | 4.1.19991013014049.00a81350@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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