> On 4 Jul 2024, at 22:22, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: > > Daniel Gustafsson <dan...@yesql.se> writes: >> On 4 Jul 2024, at 07:40, Tom Lane <t...@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. > > After thinking for awhile, that seemed like burying the lede. > It's an independent telling of the tale, and could reasonably > go near the top, as in the attached draft.
Agreed, good idea. > (I'm not too sure how to cite book chapters in DocBook, so feel > free to critique that. Also, I noticed that the ports12 item > was not in alphabetical order, so I moved it.) Reading the docbook reference I wasn't able to figure out a better way than what you have done so +1 on going ahead with this version. >> 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." > > Fixed that too. Thanks. > BTW, I contacted Hellerstein to make sure he's okay with this, > and he is. +1 -- Daniel Gustafsson
