Re: [HACKERS] Re: ORDBMS

Thomas Lockhart wrote:

> Chris, one major reason why we run the risk of damaging the OR
> features is that we don't have good coverage of these in the
> regression tests. And as Tom pointed out, we aren't sure how to get at
> the original Postgres papers and docs which might cover this in more
> detail;

Why not include the original Postgres papers in the postgresql
distribution? While it's not all applicable now, at least it would
help keep in people's minds what was there.

> the only thing we had directly was the old Postgres95 User's
> Guide, which may not cover all of the possible features (in fact I
> know it doesn't, since I made sure that all info in that guide
> appeared somewhere in the newer docs).
>
> I know that there are at least a few people with an interest in this
> (including me, but I'm suffering from, among other things, a lack of
> knowledge of what used to be there and what could be done). A great
> first step would be documenting the behaviors one would expect in a
> regression test, even if parts of that test currently fails.
>
> - Thomas
>
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> Thomas Lockhart lockhart(at)alumni(dot)caltech(dot)edu
> South Pasadena, California