Message-Id: <4.1.19991013014049.00a81350@mail.a2000.nl>
Date: Wed, 13 Oct 1999 01:41:27 +0200
To: Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us>,
 Oliver Elphick <olly@lfix.co.uk>
From: gravity <gravity@dds.nl>
Subject: Re: [DOCS] Re: [HACKERS] Outline for PostgreSQL book
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>,
	PostgreSQL-documentation <docs@postgresql.org>
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At 16:56 12-10-99 -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote: 
> 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.

I agree on this particular item BUT...

wouldn't it be nice if the book would be a 'hard' book?
there already are lots of database tutorials, introductions to sql etc.

focus on db developers, go into (maybe not that deep) how and why postgres
is/was developed the way it is/was.

'hard' books are a 'good thing' (tm) and it would be too bad if this would
become another entry-level booklet.

OTOH an entry-level book is probably required to get as big a user-base as
possible.