On Thu, Apr 23, 2015 at 8:21 AM, Andres Freund <and...@anarazel.de> wrote: > While playing around with where exactly to put the replication > origin/progress docs I once more noticed that the 'Server Programming' > book is a mix of different topics. > > It currently contains: > 35. Extending SQL > 36. Triggers > 37. Event Triggers > 38. The Rule System > 39. Procedural Languages > 40. PL/pgSQL - SQL Procedural Language > 41. PL/Tcl - Tcl Procedural Language > 42. PL/Perl - Perl Procedural Language > 43. PL/Python - Python Procedural Language > 44. Server Programming Interface > 45. Background Worker Processes > 46. Logical Decoding > 47. Replication Progress Tracking > > To me at least 44 - 47 don't really fit well to the rest. I think we > either should invent a new category for them, or move them to > 'Internals'. Maybe we could introduce 'Extending the Server' category > for those and a couple more? Candidates for that least seem to be > 52. Writing A Procedural Language Handler > 53. Writing A Foreign Data Wrapper > 54. Writing A Custom Scan Provider
I like the "extending the server" idea. Maybe "Server Extensions". > Also, shouldn't there at least be a link to > http://www.postgresql.org/docs/devel/static/xfunc-sql.html in > http://www.postgresql.org/docs/devel/static/xplang.html ? Wouldn't hurt. -- Robert Haas EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
