Re: Cleaning up the books page

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org>
To: Daniel Gustafsson <daniel(at)yesql(dot)se>
Cc: PostgreSQL WWW <pgsql-www(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Cleaning up the books page
Date: 2023-07-17 11:07:20
Message-ID: 20230717110720.5ob24mwqgm7i4x2u@alvherre.pgsql
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On 2023-Jul-17, Daniel Gustafsson wrote:

> While adding the latest books to the books page I (re-)realized how much cruft
> that page has accumulated. A lot of books have links which are dead, some are
> listed multiple times in different editions, and many of them cover long since
> EOL version of postgres. On top of that, the indentation is quite creative.
>
> The attached set cleans up that page to make the content IMO more relevant and
> helpful to our users. As we've never claimed to have a complete list of all
> books ever published, keeping the old stuff on-line has no historical interest
> since Google, Amazon and others do a much better job at keeping such things
> available.

I don't object to your cleanups, but would it make more sense to move
the book listing to the pgweb database instead?

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Álvaro Herrera Breisgau, Deutschland — https://www.EnterpriseDB.com/
<Schwern> It does it in a really, really complicated way
<crab> why does it need to be complicated?
<Schwern> Because it's MakeMaker.

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