Re: [GENERAL] Is there a shortage of postgresql skilled ops people

Oleg Bartunov wrote:
> On Tue, 27 Mar 2007, Bruce Momjian wrote:
>
> > Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> >> Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> >>> Oleg Bartunov wrote:
> >>>> Probably, it's time to sponsor our book-writers and other enthusiasts
> >>>> to write "PostgreSQL Administration handbook", which we (community)
> >>>> will accept, support and translate to different languages.
> >>>
> >>> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/admin.html
> >>>
> >>
> >> With all kudos to that link, that is not a handbook it is a reference.
> >
> > Well, there is a lot of descriptive text in the admin section.
>
> Lecturers should know better, but I think training course should include
> control questions, the order of lecturers, how much time should be
> enough to learn a lesson well, practical tasks, etc. This is what people
> expects. admin.html is a good foundation, of course. We need better
> illustration, on the whole, everything which makes courses professional
> (I'm not a specialist, sorry). My young colleagues (Nikolay and Ivan)
> are trying to setup Pgsql master class and spent several days to create
> training live cd, which is a good idea.

My point is that the admin manual is more than a reference, not that the
admin manual is a _training_ manual.

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