From: Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: pgsql-docs@lists.postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Joe Hellerstein's "Looking Back at Postgres" paper
Date: Thu, 4 Jul 2024 09:06:54 +0200
Message-ID: <29108CAC-2CFB-470D-A3DC-E666C12EF4E4@yesql.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3345678.1720071633@sss.pgh.pa.us>
References: <3345678.1720071633@sss.pgh.pa.us>
> On 4 Jul 2024, at 07:40, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>
> I happened to come across this:
>
> https://arxiv.org/pdf/1901.01973
>
> I found this to be really interesting reading, so I wonder if
> we shouldn't cite it in history.sgml or some such place.
It's a really good read, +1 for referencing it in history.sgml. I would
probably have placed it at the tail end of 2.1 to wrap up that section or at
the very end.
Unrelated to that, but reading history.sgml I found this sentend at the end of
the page to be sort of misleading:
"Details about what has happened in PostgreSQL since then can be found
in Appendix E."
While technically true, it seems a bit overpromising in a history section to
refer to the release notes which are written in a very different way from the
prose here (and the release notes are not even in Appendix E anymore).
--
Daniel Gustafsson
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