Doc: minor improvements for our "Brief History" chapter.

Add a link to Joe Hellerstein's paper "Looking Back at Postgres",
which is quite an interesting take on the history of Postgres.

The reference to Appendix E was written when we were still keeping
the entire release-note history there, which we stopped doing some
years ago when the O(N^2) cost of that started to become apparent.
Instead, point to the release note archives on the website.
(This per suggestion from Daniel Gustafsson.)

In passing, move the "ports12" biblioentry to be in alphabetical
order within that section.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/3345678.1720071633@sss.pgh.pa.us

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/biblio.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/biblio.sgml
index cd8aa3e8aadc8ea22245dab7cabc9d179b64c63a..443e2d6fac7be54ef9c11c9e0e090e6c8c3c9c1d 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/src/sgml/biblio.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/biblio.sgml
@@ -230,27 +230,6 @@ ssimkovi@ag.or.at
   <bibliodiv>
    <title>Proceedings and Articles</title>
 
-   <biblioentry id="ports12">
-    <biblioset relation="article">
-     <title><ulink url="https://arxiv.org/pdf/1208.4179">Serializable Snapshot Isolation in PostgreSQL</ulink></title>
-     <authorgroup>
-      <author>
-       <firstname>D.</firstname>
-       <surname>Ports</surname>
-      </author>
-      <author>
-       <firstname>K.</firstname>
-       <surname>Grittner</surname>
-      </author>
-     </authorgroup>
-    </biblioset>
-    <confgroup>
-     <conftitle>VLDB Conference</conftitle>
-     <confdates>August 2012</confdates>
-     <address>Istanbul, Turkey</address>
-    </confgroup>
-   </biblioentry>
-
    <biblioentry id="berenson95">
     <biblioset relation="article">
      <title><ulink url="https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/tr-95-51.pdf">A Critique of ANSI SQL Isolation Levels</ulink></title>
@@ -288,6 +267,24 @@ ssimkovi@ag.or.at
     </confgroup>
    </biblioentry>
 
+   <biblioentry id="hell18">
+    <biblioset relation="article">
+     <title><ulink url="https://arxiv.org/pdf/1901.01973">Looking Back at Postgres</ulink></title>
+     <author>
+      <firstname>J.</firstname>
+      <surname>Hellerstein</surname>
+     </author>
+    </biblioset>
+    <biblioset relation="book">
+     <title>Making Databases Work</title>
+     <isbn>978-1-947487-19-2</isbn>
+     <publisher>
+      <publishername>Association for Computing Machinery and Morgan &amp; Claypool</publishername>
+     </publisher>
+     <pubdate>2018</pubdate>
+    </biblioset>
+   </biblioentry>
+
    <biblioentry id="olson93">
     <title>Partial indexing in POSTGRES: research project</title>
     <authorgroup>
@@ -328,6 +325,27 @@ ssimkovi@ag.or.at
    </biblioset>
    </biblioentry>
 
+   <biblioentry id="ports12">
+    <biblioset relation="article">
+     <title><ulink url="https://arxiv.org/pdf/1208.4179">Serializable Snapshot Isolation in PostgreSQL</ulink></title>
+     <authorgroup>
+      <author>
+       <firstname>D.</firstname>
+       <surname>Ports</surname>
+      </author>
+      <author>
+       <firstname>K.</firstname>
+       <surname>Grittner</surname>
+      </author>
+     </authorgroup>
+    </biblioset>
+    <confgroup>
+     <conftitle>VLDB Conference</conftitle>
+     <confdates>August 2012</confdates>
+     <address>Istanbul, Turkey</address>
+    </confgroup>
+   </biblioentry>
+
    <biblioentry id="rowe87">
    <biblioset relation="article">
     <title><ulink url="https://dsf.berkeley.edu/papers/ERL-M87-13.pdf">The <productname>POSTGRES</productname>

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/history.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/history.sgml
index 19bea5390b94e5e9cdb4e04f171eca1281178df6..e7d134e53ad5a7a43f7eec5fb829b766eb2e3a59 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/src/sgml/history.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/history.sgml
@@ -17,6 +17,12 @@
   the most advanced open-source database available anywhere.
  </para>
 
+ <para>
+  Another take on the history presented here can be found in Dr. Joe
+  Hellerstein's paper <quote>Looking Back at Postgres</quote>
+  <xref linkend="hell18"/>.
+ </para>
+
  <sect2 id="history-berkeley">
   <title>The Berkeley <productname>POSTGRES</productname> Project</title>
 
@@ -215,8 +221,10 @@
   </para>
 
   <para>
-   Details about what has happened in <productname>PostgreSQL</productname> since
-   then can be found in <xref linkend="release"/>.
+   Details about what has happened in
+   each <productname>PostgreSQL</productname> release since then
+   can be found at
+   <ulink url="https://www.postgresql.org/docs/release/">https://www.postgresql.org/docs/release/</ulink>.
   </para>
  </sect2>
 </sect1>