Selected references and readings for SQL and PostgreSQL.
Some white papers and technical reports from the original POSTGRES development team are available at the University of California, Berkeley, Computer Science Department web site.
[bowman01] The Practical SQL Handbook. Using SQL Variants. Fourth Edition. ISBN 0-201-70309-2. Addison-Wesley Professional. 2001.
[date97] A Guide to the SQL Standard. A user's guide to the standard database language SQL. Fourth Edition. ISBN 0-201-96426-0. Addison-Wesley. 1997.
[date04] An Introduction to Database Systems. Eighth Edition. ISBN 0-321-19784-4. Addison-Wesley. 2003.
[elma04] Fundamentals of Database Systems. Fourth Edition. ISBN 0-321-12226-7. Addison-Wesley. 2003.
[melt93] Understanding the New SQL. A complete guide. ISBN 1-55860-245-3. Morgan Kaufmann. 1993.
[ull88] Principles of Database and Knowledge-Base Systems. Classical Database Systems. Computer Science Press. 1988.
[sqltr-19075-6] SQL Technical Report. Part 6: SQL support for JavaScript Object Notation (JSON). First Edition. 2017.
[sim98] Enhancement of the ANSI SQL Implementation of PostgreSQL. Department of Information Systems, Vienna University of Technology. Vienna, Austria. November 29, 1998.
[yu95] The Postgres95. User Manual. University of California. Berkeley, California. Sept. 5, 1995.
[fong] The design and implementation of the POSTGRES query optimizer. University of California, Berkeley, Computer Science Department.
[ports12] “Serializable Snapshot Isolation in PostgreSQL”. VLDB Conference, August 2012.
[berenson95] “A Critique of ANSI SQL Isolation Levels”. ACM-SIGMOD Conference on Management of Data, June 1995.
[olson93] Partial indexing in POSTGRES: research project. UCB Engin T7.49.1993 O676. University of California. Berkeley, California. 1993.
[ong90] “A Unified Framework for Version Modeling Using Production Rules in a Database System”. ERL Technical Memorandum M90/33. University of California. Berkeley, California. April, 1990.
[rowe87] “The POSTGRES data model”. VLDB Conference, Sept. 1987.
[seshadri95] “Generalized Partial Indexes”. Eleventh International Conference on Data Engineering, 6–10 March 1995. Cat. No.95CH35724. IEEE Computer Society Press. Los Alamitos, California. 1995. 420–7.
[ston86] “The design of POSTGRES”. ACM-SIGMOD Conference on Management of Data, May 1986.
[ston87a] “The design of the POSTGRES rules system”. IEEE Conference on Data Engineering, Feb. 1987.
[ston87b] “The design of the POSTGRES storage system”. VLDB Conference, Sept. 1987.
[ston89] “A commentary on the POSTGRES rules system”. SIGMOD Record 18(3). Sept. 1989.
[ston89b] “The case for partial indexes”. SIGMOD Record 18(4). Dec. 1989. 4–11.
[ston90a] “The implementation of POSTGRES”. Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering 2(1). IEEE. March 1990.
[ston90b] “On Rules, Procedures, Caching and Views in Database Systems”. ACM-SIGMOD Conference on Management of Data, June 1990.
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