Re: [GENERAL] book for postgresql
On Mon, 9 Feb 2004, Christopher Browne wrote: Date: Mon, 09 Feb 2004 20:57:13 -0500 From: Christopher Browne [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]@postgresql.org Subject: Re: [GENERAL] book for postgresql A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ed Wong) wrote: I am an oracle dba and new to postgresql. Could you tell me what is the best postgres book out there to start with? I am looking for a book which is sort of a complete reference including some dba chapters as well. There are three fairly good books in printed form: - New Riders has one that is about the most recent one published, which, it seems to me, has about the best explanation of the query optimizer going, as well as quite a lot of other fairly deep technical material; - Addison Wesley published Bruce Momjian's book which is getting a bit dated, but which is still quite good; - O'Reilly has a third one that is also dated but good. The online material is also a good source, and is commonly included along with the PostgreSQL installation. All four of these sources are quite good. I have all but Bruce's book on my desk... For some strange reason, the message above, took somewhat over three months to come through, maybe due to the To address in the header (?). I am wondering whether, given that Bruce Momjian's book appears to be regarded as a bit dated, a 2nd Edition is on the way? -- Bret Busby Armadale West Australia .. So once you do know what the question actually is, you'll know what the answer means. - Deep Thought, Chapter 28 of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: A Trilogy In Four Parts, written by Douglas Adams, published by Pan Books, 1992 ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 9: the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index scan if your joining column's datatypes do not match
Re: [GENERAL] book for postgresql
Stephen Howard wrote: also, as much as i really like o'reilly books in general, i find the index in this one quite lacking. Yeah, I agree, and I work with one of the authors and he says the same thing! (long story, not worth it) In its stead, you can search and read the entire book at our website below. And since the book was written for 7.1, we put up a simultaneous search of the book with the current official PostgreSQL techdocs. -- Best, Al Hulaton| Sr. Account Engineer | Command Prompt, Inc. 503.667.4564 | [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home of Mammoth Replicator for PostgreSQL Managed PostgreSQL, Linux services and consulting Read and Search O'Reilly's 'Practical PostgreSQL' at http://www.commandprompt.com ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command (send unregister YourEmailAddressHere to [EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: [GENERAL] book for postgresql
also, as much as i really like o'reilly books in general, i find the index in this one quite lacking. Benjamin Jury wrote: -Original Message- From: Christopher Browne [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 10 February 2004 01:57 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]@postgresql.org Subject: Re: [GENERAL] book for postgresql - O'Reilly has a third one that is also dated but good. Beware, I have this book. It is indeed very well written in the tradition of O'Reilly books, but was published in January 2002 so it is very out of date. It covers up to v7.1.x. Postgresql has moved on a lot since then, just look at the changelog! ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 6: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org
