Alvaro Herrera <alvhe...@2ndquadrant.com> writes: > Tom Lane wrote: >> Another minor gripe is the use of a random URL as justification. This >> code will still be around when that URL exists nowhere but the Wayback >> Machine. Can't we find a more formal citation to use?
> The article text refers to this 1977 S. B. Yao paper "Approximating > block accesses in database organizations" which doesn't appear to be > available online, except behind ACM's paywall at > http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=359475 Well, a CACM citation is perfectly fine by my lights (especially one that's that far back and therefore certainly patent-free ...) Let's use something like this: See "Approximating block accesses in database organizations", S. B. Yao, Communications of the ACM, Volume 20 Issue 4, April 1977 Pages 260-261 regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
