From: Chairudin Sentosa Harjo <chai@prima.net.id>
To: Bruce Stephens <bruce@cenderis.demon.co.uk>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgreSQL.org>
Cc: PostgreSQL-documentation <docs@postgreSQL.org>
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Re: [DOCS] Outline for PostgreSQL book
Date: Thu, 14 Oct 1999 08:24:28 +0700
Message-ID: <380530CC.165E6D48@prima.net.id> (raw)
References: <199910121716.NAA29586@candle.pha.pa.us>
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Bruce Stephens wrote:
>
> Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
>
> > PostgreSQL Book Proposal
> >
> > Bruce Momjian
>
> [...]
>
> > 4.
> > Advanced SQL Commands
>
> [...]
>
> > 6.
> > Interfacing to the POSTGRESQL Database
> > (a)
> > C Language API
> > (b)
> > Embedded C
> > (c)
> > C++
> > (d)
> > JAVA
> > (e)
> > ODBC
> > (f)
> > PERL
> > (g)
> > TCL/TK
> > (h)
> > PYTHON
> > (i)
> > Web access (PHP)
> > (j)
> > Server-side programming (PLPGSQL and SPI)
>
> Isn't (j) logically part of chapter 4? (Or 5, if it's PostgreSQL
> specific.) Or am I completely confused? (Where can I read about
> PLPGSQL and/or SPI, other than in the forthcoming book?)
>
> If it came to a choice between having very short sections in chapter
> 6, and having two or three of them covered in more depth, I'd go for
> the latter.
>
> (Of course, you'll inevitably choose two or three which don't match
> what many readers will want (whichever two or three you choose), but
> even so, I think I'd get more out of a reasonably thorough coverage of
> a couple of languages that I won't use than superficial coverage of
> all of them which doesn't really reveal anything useful.)
>
> ************
I second this opinion.
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