Re: Joe Hellerstein's "Looking Back at Postgres" paper

2024-07-04 Thread Thomas Munro
On Fri, Jul 5, 2024 at 11:13 AM Tom Lane wrote: > Hmm, the arxiv.org copy claims it appeared in "Making Databases Work", > so that's how I cited it in the proposed patch. Is that wrong? > Perhaps it was published twice? No, you have it right, I confused myself with the subtitle. https://www.ama

Re: Joe Hellerstein's "Looking Back at Postgres" paper

2024-07-04 Thread Tom Lane
Thomas Munro writes: > On Thu, Jul 4, 2024 at 5:40 PM Tom Lane wrote: >> I happened to come across this: >> https://arxiv.org/pdf/1901.01973 > Just by the way, for anyone interested, that paper appeared as a > chapter in a book "The Pragmatic Wisdom of Michael Stonebraker". Hmm, the arxiv.org c

Re: Joe Hellerstein's "Looking Back at Postgres" paper

2024-07-04 Thread Thomas Munro
On Thu, Jul 4, 2024 at 5:40 PM Tom Lane wrote: > I happened to come across this: > > https://arxiv.org/pdf/1901.01973 > > I found this to be really interesting reading, Just by the way, for anyone interested, that paper appeared as a chapter in a book "The Pragmatic Wisdom of Michael Stonebraker"

Re: Joe Hellerstein's "Looking Back at Postgres" paper

2024-07-04 Thread Daniel Gustafsson
> On 4 Jul 2024, at 22:22, Tom Lane wrote: > > Daniel Gustafsson writes: >> On 4 Jul 2024, at 07:40, Tom Lane 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.sgm

Re: Joe Hellerstein's "Looking Back at Postgres" paper

2024-07-04 Thread Tom Lane
Daniel Gustafsson writes: > On 4 Jul 2024, at 07:40, Tom Lane 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 f

Re: Chapter "8.8 Geometric Types" of documentation could contain more details

2024-07-04 Thread Tom Lane
=?UTF-8?Q?Sebastian_Ska=C5=82acki?= writes: > Looks great to me, thanks! Pushed, thanks. regards, tom lane

Re: Joe Hellerstein's "Looking Back at Postgres" paper

2024-07-04 Thread Daniel Gustafsson
> On 4 Jul 2024, at 17:12, Tom Lane wrote: > > Daniel Gustafsson writes: >> 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." >

Re: Joe Hellerstein's "Looking Back at Postgres" paper

2024-07-04 Thread Tom Lane
Daniel Gustafsson writes: > 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." > While technically true, it seems a bit overprom

Re: Bibliography reference redirects to a Forbiden page.

2024-07-04 Thread Daniel Gustafsson
> On 11 Jun 2024, at 11:00, PG Doc comments form wrote: > > The following documentation comment has been logged on the website: > > Page: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/16/biblio.html > Description: > > "Serializable Snapshot Isolation in PostgreSQL" by D. Ports, in the > bibliography leads to

Re: Document when ssl_prefer_server_ciphers went in

2024-07-04 Thread Daniel Gustafsson
> On 3 Jul 2024, at 11:49, Peter Eisentraut wrote: > > On 03.07.24 11:23, Daniel Gustafsson wrote: >> In the documentation for ssl_prefer_server_ciphers we only say it's not in >> "older version" but we omit to specify it further. Since it's a fairly >> important setting for security I think it

Re: Joe Hellerstein's "Looking Back at Postgres" paper

2024-07-04 Thread Daniel Gustafsson
> On 4 Jul 2024, at 07:40, Tom Lane 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 his