Re: Joe Hellerstein's "Looking Back at Postgres" paper

2024-07-04 Thread Thomas Munro
On Fri, Jul 5, 2024 at 11:13 AM Tom Lane wrote: > Hmm, the arxiv.org copy claims it appeared in "Making Databases Work", > so that's how I cited it in the proposed patch. Is that wrong? > Perhaps it was published twice? No, you have it right, I confused myself with the subtitle. https://www.ama

Re: Joe Hellerstein's "Looking Back at Postgres" paper

2024-07-04 Thread Tom Lane
Thomas Munro writes: > On Thu, Jul 4, 2024 at 5:40 PM Tom Lane wrote: >> I happened to come across this: >> https://arxiv.org/pdf/1901.01973 > Just by the way, for anyone interested, that paper appeared as a > chapter in a book "The Pragmatic Wisdom of Michael Stonebraker". Hmm, the arxiv.org c

Re: Joe Hellerstein's "Looking Back at Postgres" paper

2024-07-04 Thread Thomas Munro
On Thu, Jul 4, 2024 at 5:40 PM Tom Lane wrote: > I happened to come across this: > > https://arxiv.org/pdf/1901.01973 > > I found this to be really interesting reading, Just by the way, for anyone interested, that paper appeared as a chapter in a book "The Pragmatic Wisdom of Michael Stonebraker"

Re: Joe Hellerstein's "Looking Back at Postgres" paper

2024-07-04 Thread Daniel Gustafsson
> On 4 Jul 2024, at 22:22, Tom Lane wrote: > > Daniel Gustafsson writes: >> On 4 Jul 2024, at 07:40, Tom Lane wrote: >>> I happened to come across this: >>> https://arxiv.org/pdf/1901.01973 >>> I found this to be really interesting reading, so I wonder if >>> we shouldn't cite it in history.sgm

Re: Joe Hellerstein's "Looking Back at Postgres" paper

2024-07-04 Thread Tom Lane
Daniel Gustafsson writes: > On 4 Jul 2024, at 07:40, Tom Lane wrote: >> I happened to come across this: >> https://arxiv.org/pdf/1901.01973 >> I found this to be really interesting reading, so I wonder if >> we shouldn't cite it in history.sgml or some such place. > It's a really good read, +1 f

Re: Joe Hellerstein's "Looking Back at Postgres" paper

2024-07-04 Thread Daniel Gustafsson
> On 4 Jul 2024, at 17:12, Tom Lane wrote: > > Daniel Gustafsson writes: >> Unrelated to that, but reading history.sgml I found this sentend at the end >> of >> the page to be sort of misleading: > >> "Details about what has happened in PostgreSQL since then can be found >> in Appendix E." >

Re: Joe Hellerstein's "Looking Back at Postgres" paper

2024-07-04 Thread Tom Lane
Daniel Gustafsson writes: > Unrelated to that, but reading history.sgml I found this sentend at the end of > the page to be sort of misleading: > "Details about what has happened in PostgreSQL since then can be found > in Appendix E." > While technically true, it seems a bit overprom

Re: Joe Hellerstein's "Looking Back at Postgres" paper

2024-07-04 Thread Daniel Gustafsson
> On 4 Jul 2024, at 07:40, Tom Lane wrote: > > I happened to come across this: > > https://arxiv.org/pdf/1901.01973 > > I found this to be really interesting reading, so I wonder if > we shouldn't cite it in history.sgml or some such place. It's a really good read, +1 for referencing it in his