Subject: Re: Pushing btree opclass implementor's docs to the main SGML docs
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, pgsql-docs@lists.postgresql.org
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From: Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com>
Organization: 2ndQuadrant
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Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2018 14:43:05 -0500
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On 2/5/18 18:51, Tom Lane wrote:
> So I can see two ways to approach this: add two new subsections at the end
> of xindex.sgml, or create a new chapter about b-trees in Part VII
> ("Internals") to go beside the existing ones about the more recently added
> index types.  The latter would make more sense if anyone was inspired to
> write something comparable in length to the existing per-index-type
> chapters.  But I'm not volunteering to do that, so if it's a chapter it'd
> be a mighty thin one to start with.

xindex seems better to me.

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