RE: New PostgreSQL Books

Thank you for the links!

v/r,

Chas

From: Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org>
Sent: Friday, March 16, 2018 3:05 PM
To: Jonathan S. Katz <jkatz(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Cc: Sarah Schnurr <xenophenes42(at)gmail(dot)com>; pgsql-advocacy(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: New PostgreSQL Books

On 16 Mar 2018, at 20:03, Jonathan S. Katz <jkatz(at)postgresql(dot)org <mailto:jkatz(at)postgresql(dot)org> > wrote:

Hi Sarah,

On Mar 16, 2018, at 3:42 PM, Sarah Schnurr <xenophenes42(at)gmail(dot)com <mailto:xenophenes42(at)gmail(dot)com> > wrote:

Hello all!

I'm one of the developers working on the new PostgreSQL website, and while reviewing for outdated information I noticed there's some new books published in 2017 & 2018 that aren't in the Books database. Are there any arguments against including these?

* https://bookauthority.org/books/new-postgresql-books
* https://bigmachine.io/products/a-curious-moon

From my time helping to add content typically we’ve added books when people

have asked us to do so. From someone who predates me: are we ok with

adding references to books when the author has not specifically reached out?

There are potential copyright images with pictures of them if we do that. I doubt anyone would complain, but you never know.

Additionally, I think it'd be a great idea to have more versatile resources provided to people looking to learn PostgreSQL. That seems to be the biggest barrier preventing people from getting started, from conversations I've had at conferences. So I'd like to include a new page under "Documentation" labeled something like "Online Resources".

Some potential candidates for inclusion:

* http://schemaverse.com/
* http://www.postgresqltutorial.com/
* https://zaiste.net/posts/postgresql_primer_for_busy_people/
* http://postgresguide.com/
* http://www.tutorialspoint.com/postgresql/
* https://pgexercises.com/
* https://github.com/dhamaniasad/awesome-postgres
* http://books.goalkicker.com/PostgreSQLBook/

If you disagree with the idea, any of the suggestions, or if you have any input on other resources/books to include please let me know.

+1. I think we need to make sure that we periodically audit

the resources, but this is not different than what we have with professional services

or products (which get audited every X years at this point).

Jonathan