From: Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us>
To: Vince Vielhaber <vev@michvhf.com>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgreSQL.org>
Cc: PostgreSQL-documentation <docs@postgreSQL.org>
Cc: Oliver Elphick <olly@lfix.co.uk>
Subject: Re: [DOCS] Re: [HACKERS] Outline for PostgreSQL book
Date: Tue, 12 Oct 1999 20:03:47 -0400 (EDT)
Message-ID: <199910130003.UAA14654@candle.pha.pa.us> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <XFMail.991012195611.vev@michvhf.com>
>
> 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.
>
> It doesn't have to be a mess.
>
Frankly, if I can get away with having whole sections that point to URL
files, so much the better. If I can just point them to the INSTALL
file, and be done with it, great.
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