From: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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To: | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> |
Cc: | pgsql-docs(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: Listing SQL books in the documentation |
Date: | 2001-09-04 16:17:16 |
Message-ID: | 200109041617.f84GHGg15087@candle.pha.pa.us |
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> The documentation set contains several references to commercial books
> about databases and/or SQL for "more information". Most of these are
> rather old by today's standards (93-97), so I think we should do something
> about that. Possibilities:
>
> a) Update the list with our favourites of the day
>
> b) Sell advertisement spots for the documentation ;-)
>
> c) Not list any commerical books in the documentation at all
>
> Personally, I'm leaning towards (c) because I feel the documentation
> should not be biased in that way, and it makes it look less like "we're
> too lazy to document this, please read a book".
>
> Untouched by any of this would of course be references to relevant
> academic works and specific references to any kind of text to support
> implementation choices, etc.
FYI, the FAQ mentions books too.
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