Received: from candle.pha.pa.us (candle.navpoint.com [162.33.245.46]) by postgresql.org (8.11.3/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f3UG3H337195 for ; Mon, 30 Apr 2001 12:03:17 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from pgman@candle.pha.pa.us) Received: (from pgman@localhost) by candle.pha.pa.us (8.10.1/8.10.1) id f3UG3AZ16511; Mon, 30 Apr 2001 12:03:10 -0400 (EDT) From: Bruce Momjian Message-Id: <200104301603.f3UG3AZ16511@candle.pha.pa.us> Subject: Re: Developer vs. Programmer In-Reply-To: <14724.988640465@sss.pgh.pa.us> "from Tom Lane at Apr 30, 2001 10:21:05 am" To: Tom Lane Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2001 12:03:10 -0400 (EDT) CC: Vince Vielhaber , PostgreSQL-documentation X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL90 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Archive-Number: 200104/102 X-Sequence-Number: 674 > Vince Vielhaber writes: > > On Mon, 30 Apr 2001, Bruce Momjian wrote: > >> Is there a clearer way to distinguish Programmer from DB internals > >> Developer. I always get them confused. > > > Since the "Developer's Guide" is something that didn't exist in the > > docs before 7.1, I'd say that if anything a new name for it would be > > needed. But I have no suggestions. > > What? It was there before: > http://www.ca.postgresql.org/users-lounge/docs/7.0/postgres/part-developer.htm > > I agree that "developer's guide" vs "programmer's guide" is a rather > unclear distinction ... no immediate ideas for better names though. OK, so people agree we need a better name but can't come up with one. How about Internals Developer, so it would be the Internals Developers Corner and the Internals Developer Manual. -- Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us pgman@candle.pha.pa.us | (610) 853-3000 + If your life is a hard drive, | 830 Blythe Avenue + Christ can be your backup. | Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania 19026