At 16:56 12-10-99 -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
>
> > Installation is the administrator's job, and not of interest to `normal'
> > users, so it should not be placed in the book as if every user had to do
> > it.
> Done. Certainly better to get that at the end. That chapter is going
> to be a mess to look at.
I agree on this particular item BUT...
wouldn't it be nice if the book would be a 'hard' book?
there already are lots of database tutorials, introductions to sql etc.
focus on db developers, go into (maybe not that deep) how and why postgres
is/was developed the way it is/was.
'hard' books are a 'good thing' (tm) and it would be too bad if this would
become another entry-level booklet.
OTOH an entry-level book is probably required to get as big a user-base as
possible.