Received: from candle.pha.pa.us (candle.navpoint.com [162.33.245.46]) by postgresql.org (8.11.3/8.11.4) with ESMTP id f84GHK712334 for ; Tue, 4 Sep 2001 12:17:20 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from pgman@candle.pha.pa.us) Received: (from pgman@localhost) by candle.pha.pa.us (8.11.6/8.10.1) id f84GHGg15087; Tue, 4 Sep 2001 12:17:16 -0400 (EDT) From: Bruce Momjian Message-Id: <200109041617.f84GHGg15087@candle.pha.pa.us> Subject: Re: Listing SQL books in the documentation In-Reply-To: "from Peter Eisentraut at Sep 2, 2001 07:02:27 pm" To: Peter Eisentraut Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2001 12:17:16 -0400 (EDT) CC: pgsql-docs@postgresql.org 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: 200109/12 X-Sequence-Number: 944 > The documentation set contains several references to commercial books > about databases and/or SQL for "more information". Most of these are > rather old by today's standards (93-97), so I think we should do something > about that. Possibilities: > > a) Update the list with our favourites of the day > > b) Sell advertisement spots for the documentation ;-) > > c) Not list any commerical books in the documentation at all > > Personally, I'm leaning towards (c) because I feel the documentation > should not be biased in that way, and it makes it look less like "we're > too lazy to document this, please read a book". > > Untouched by any of this would of course be references to relevant > academic works and specific references to any kind of text to support > implementation choices, etc. FYI, the FAQ mentions books too. -- 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