From: | Chairudin Sentosa Harjo <chai(at)prima(dot)net(dot)id> |
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To: | Bruce Stephens <bruce(at)cenderis(dot)demon(dot)co(dot)uk> |
Cc: | PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org>, PostgreSQL-documentation <docs(at)postgreSQL(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: [HACKERS] Re: [DOCS] Outline for PostgreSQL book |
Date: | 1999-10-14 01:24:28 |
Message-ID: | 380530CC.165E6D48@prima.net.id |
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Bruce Stephens wrote:
>
> Bruce Momjian <maillist(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
>
> > PostgreSQL Book Proposal
> >
> > Bruce Momjian
>
> [...]
>
> > 4.
> > Advanced SQL Commands
>
> [...]
>
> > 6.
> > Interfacing to the POSTGRESQL Database
> > (a)
> > C Language API
> > (b)
> > Embedded C
> > (c)
> > C++
> > (d)
> > JAVA
> > (e)
> > ODBC
> > (f)
> > PERL
> > (g)
> > TCL/TK
> > (h)
> > PYTHON
> > (i)
> > Web access (PHP)
> > (j)
> > Server-side programming (PLPGSQL and SPI)
>
> Isn't (j) logically part of chapter 4? (Or 5, if it's PostgreSQL
> specific.) Or am I completely confused? (Where can I read about
> PLPGSQL and/or SPI, other than in the forthcoming book?)
>
> If it came to a choice between having very short sections in chapter
> 6, and having two or three of them covered in more depth, I'd go for
> the latter.
>
> (Of course, you'll inevitably choose two or three which don't match
> what many readers will want (whichever two or three you choose), but
> even so, I think I'd get more out of a reasonably thorough coverage of
> a couple of languages that I won't use than superficial coverage of
> all of them which doesn't really reveal anything useful.)
>
> ************
I second this opinion.
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