Re: [HACKERS] Re: [DOCS] Outline for PostgreSQL book

Bruce Stephens wrote:
>
> Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
>
> >                           PostgreSQL Book Proposal
> >
> >                                Bruce Momjian
>
> [...]
>
> >    4.
> >           Advanced SQL Commands
>
> [...]
>
> >    6.
> >           Interfacing to the POSTGRESQL Database
> >         (a)
> >                C Language API
> >         (b)
> >                Embedded C
> >         (c)
> >                C++
> >         (d)
> >                JAVA
> >         (e)
> >                ODBC
> >         (f)
> >                PERL
> >         (g)
> >                TCL/TK
> >         (h)
> >                PYTHON
> >         (i)
> >                Web access (PHP)
> >         (j)
> >                Server-side programming (PLPGSQL and SPI)
>
> Isn't (j) logically part of chapter 4?  (Or 5, if it's PostgreSQL
> specific.)  Or am I completely confused?  (Where can I read about
> PLPGSQL and/or SPI, other than in the forthcoming book?)
>
> If it came to a choice between having very short sections in chapter
> 6, and having two or three of them covered in more depth, I'd go for
> the latter.
>
> (Of course, you'll inevitably choose two or three which don't match
> what many readers will want (whichever two or three you choose), but
> even so, I think I'd get more out of a reasonably thorough coverage of
> a couple of languages that I won't use than superficial coverage of
> all of them which doesn't really reveal anything useful.)
>
> ************


I second this opinion.