>>>>> "Chris" == Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl@familyhealth.com.au> writes:
>> PostgreSQL most definitely works great on Solaris x86 ! At UC >> Berkeley, we have our undergraduate students
hackon the >> internals of PostgreSQL in the upper-division "Introduction to >> Database Systems" class .. >>
http://www-inst.eecs.berkeley.edu/~cs186/
Chris> Hi Sailesh,
Chris> You know what would be kind of cool? If you could write a Chris> "Guide to PostgreSQL to Teach
Databases".
Chris> eg. You could cover how to set up the server securely Chris> (eg. schemas for each person), etc.
Chris> How to manage it all, handle upgrades, etc. Mention what Chris> things are good to get students to hack on
inthe Chris> internals, etc.
Chris> Could be a good techdocs.postgresql.org article.
Hmm .. this is probably a good idea. I ought to do it for the benefit
of future TAs here anyway - but I wasn't thinking on the lines of a
full-fledged article .. just burnt out with too much writing :-)
I'm just underwater until the end of the semester. If I don't come
through by the end of december do ping me.
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