Re: [HACKERS] Outline for PostgreSQL book

From: Vince Vielhaber <vev(at)michvhf(dot)com>
To: Bruce Momjian <maillist(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org>, PostgreSQL-documentation <docs(at)postgreSQL(dot)org>, Oliver Elphick <olly(at)lfix(dot)co(dot)uk>
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Outline for PostgreSQL book
Date: 1999-10-12 21:18:11
Message-ID: XFMail.991012171811.vev@michvhf.com
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On 12-Oct-99 Bruce Momjian wrote:
>> 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?

Not at this early stage. Wait till it's further along.

Vince.
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