Re: Split the 'Server Programming' chapter into two?

Robert Haas wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 23, 2015 at 8:21 AM, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> wrote:

> > To me at least 44 - 47 don't really fit well to the rest. I think we
> > either should invent a new category for them, or move them to
> > 'Internals'. Maybe we could introduce 'Extending the Server' category
> > for those and a couple more? Candidates for that least seem to be
> > 52. Writing A Procedural Language Handler
> > 53. Writing A Foreign Data Wrapper
> > 54. Writing A Custom Scan Provider
>
> I like the "extending the server" idea. Maybe "Server Extensions".

+1 for Extending the Server. I don't like Server Extensions too much;
seems confusing with sql-level EXTENSION objects.

> > Also, shouldn't there at least be a link to
> > http://www.postgresql.org/docs/devel/static/xfunc-sql.html in
> > http://www.postgresql.org/docs/devel/static/xplang.html ?
>
> Wouldn't hurt.

Agreed.

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