Re: documentation structure

On Fri, Mar 22, 2024 at 02:19:29PM -0400, Robert Haas wrote:
> If you were actually looking for the section called "System Views",
> you weren't likely to see it here unless you already knew it was
> there, because it was 64 items into a 97-item list. Having one of
> these two sections inside the other just doesn't work at all. We could
> have alternatively chosen to have one chapter with two <sect1> tags
> inside of it, but I think what you actually did was perfectly fine.
> IMHO, "System Views" is important enough (and big enough) that giving
> it its own chapter is perfectly reasonable.
>
> But that all seems like a separate question from why we have the
> statistic collector views in a completely different part of the
> documentation from the rest of the system views. My guess is that it's
> just kind of a historical accident, but maybe there was some other
> logic to it.

I assume statistics collector views are in "Monitoring Database
Activity" because that is their purpose.

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