On Wed, Nov 21, 2001 at 01:36:15PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> > Guys, why did we want the source, exactly?
>
> I just said that source for the document would be appropriate to keep
> in CVS whereas the PS output was not. I'm not sure that we really want
> the document, though, since we're not using it as actual documentation
> (ie, it's not being updated to reflect changes in the system).
Perhaps because it _can't_ be updated, without the source? A number of
people have commented on how it's a good write up of internals of query
processing. Unfortunately, it's circa v. 6.3, and starting to show it's
age. If the source were available, pulling out sections and updating them
is at least a possibility. Otherwise, it's just a historical document:
interesting, but fading.
Stefan, could you see your way to putting it under an Open Content
license of some sort, so it could be used in this way?
Ross