Re: Pushing btree opclass implementor's docs to the main SGML docs

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-docs(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Pushing btree opclass implementor's docs to the main SGML docs
Date: 2018-02-06 20:26:05
Message-ID: 29452.1517948765@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> writes:
> On 2/5/18 18:51, Tom Lane wrote:
>> So I can see two ways to approach this: add two new subsections at the end
>> of xindex.sgml, or create a new chapter about b-trees in Part VII
>> ("Internals") to go beside the existing ones about the more recently added
>> index types. The latter would make more sense if anyone was inspired to
>> write something comparable in length to the existing per-index-type
>> chapters. But I'm not volunteering to do that, so if it's a chapter it'd
>> be a mighty thin one to start with.

> xindex seems better to me.

Oh, I already did it as a chapter. I'm inclined to think that somebody
will want to write something more there someday, and anyway it's already
longer than some existing chapters ...

regards, tom lane

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