Received: from magus.postgresql.org ([2a02:c0:301:0:ffff::29]) by malur.postgresql.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1T2Sln-0006vY-MW for pgsql-docs@postgresql.org; Fri, 17 Aug 2012 20:03:47 +0000 Received: from eisentraut.org ([85.214.91.16] helo=gattler.pezone.net) by magus.postgresql.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1T2Slk-00023q-5P for pgsql-docs@postgresql.org; Fri, 17 Aug 2012 20:03:47 +0000 Received: from jesse.pezone.net (efw.scs.myyearbook.com [204.145.120.11]) by gattler.pezone.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 52F745A8366; Fri, 17 Aug 2012 20:03:43 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <502EA39E.4040301@gmx.net> Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2012 16:03:42 -0400 From: Peter Eisentraut User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.7; rv:14.0) Gecko/20120713 Thunderbird/14.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Chris Travers CC: Postgres Documentation Subject: Re: Would like to contribute a section to docs for 9.3. Where to start? References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Pg-Spam-Score: -1.9 (-) X-Archive-Number: 201208/32 X-Sequence-Number: 7425 On 8/15/12 5:33 AM, Chris Travers wrote: > So here is a very rough draft. I would be interested in feedback as to > inaccuracies or omissions. I would like to get the technical side right > before going into an editorial phase. > > Any feedback on the technical side? [citation needed] Seriously, if we are trying to justify our use of seemingly standard academic terms, we should have some references to where those are defined or at least discussed. Otherwise we are just begging the question: PostgreSQL is object-relational because we say so.