| From: | Jeffrey Melloy <jmelloy(at)visualdistortion(dot)org> |
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| To: | Dennis Gearon <gearond(at)fireserve(dot)net> |
| Cc: | Heath Tanner <heatht(at)interport(dot)net>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Books for PostgreSQL? |
| Date: | 2003-08-28 16:09:56 |
| Message-ID: | 110EAD15-D972-11D7-9F23-000393C78AC0@visualdistortion.org |
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On Thursday, August 28, 2003, at 08:58 AM, Dennis Gearon wrote:
> Heath Tanner wrote:
>
>> Not to take anything away from the books on the topic, but my
>> favorite source is the docs that got installed with postgres
>> (/usr/local/pgsql/doc/html).
>>
>> The index isn't great, but easily overcome:
>> grep -i "search phrase" /usr/local/pgsql/doc/html/* | less
>>
>> Try to do that with a book. :-)
>
> That brings ujp a good point, indexes in many technical bools are
> pathetic.
>
>
I wrote a quick'n'dirty search engine (using PostgreSQL, of course)
for exactly that reason.
Jeff
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