On 31 March 2016 at 21:40, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: > Alvaro Herrera <alvhe...@2ndquadrant.com> writes: >> Tom Lane wrote: >>> Another minor gripe is the use of a random URL as justification. This >>> code will still be around when that URL exists nowhere but the Wayback >>> Machine. Can't we find a more formal citation to use? > >> The article text refers to this 1977 S. B. Yao paper "Approximating >> block accesses in database organizations" which doesn't appear to be >> available online, except behind ACM's paywall at >> http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=359475 > > Well, a CACM citation is perfectly fine by my lights (especially one > that's that far back and therefore certainly patent-free ...) > > Let's use something like this: > > See "Approximating block accesses in database organizations", S. B. Yao, > Communications of the ACM, Volume 20 Issue 4, April 1977 Pages 260-261 >
Sounds good. Regards, Dean -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
