Re: documentation structure

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter(at)eisentraut(dot)org>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: documentation structure
Date: 2024-03-21 23:40:38
Message-ID: 743b27bd-0b21-41cd-8310-c8006bf08f94@eisentraut.org
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On 21.03.24 15:31, Robert Haas wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 21, 2024 at 9:38 AM Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>> I'd follow the extend.sgml precedent: have a file corresponding to the
>> chapter and containing any top-level text we need, then that includes
>> a file per sect1.
>
> OK, here's a new patch set. I've revised 0003 and 0004 to use this
> approach, and I've added a new 0005 that does essentially the same
> thing for the PL chapters.

I'm highly against this. If I want to read about PL/Python, why should
I have to wade through PL/Perl and PL/Tcl?

I think, abstractly, in a book, PL/Python should be a chapter of its
own. Just like GiST should be a chapter of its own. Because they are
self-contained topics.

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