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

> On 4 Jul 2024, at 22:22, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>
> Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se> writes:
>> On 4 Jul 2024, at 07:40, Tom Lane <tgl@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

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Daniel Gustafsson