Re: Placement of contrib modules in SGML documentation - Mailing list pgsql-docs

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Placement of contrib modules in SGML documentation
Date
Msg-id 11707.1195005406@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: Placement of contrib modules in SGML documentation  (Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>)
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Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> writes:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> I think there's a case for putting these pages under Part V Server
>> Programming (though a few are not in fact server-side code), or under
>> Part VI Reference (ignoring the fact that most of the text isn't in a
>> uniform reference-page style ... though maybe we could plan to work
>> towards that) or under Appendixes (though I'm sure there are people
>> who will complain about that because their private agenda is to make
>> these things as prominent as possible).  Or we could make them a new
>> top-level Part, probably just after Reference.

> I think appendix is the right place myself.

An argument in favor of that is that we've got External Projects as
an appendix too, and it seems to make sense to put contrib next door
to them.

I'll go with that for the moment, and 'Additional Supplied Modules'
as the title --- we can always change again later if there's a better
idea.

            regards, tom lane

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