Re: Question about Lockhart's book

Hi Andrew,

Thanks for your response. Sometimes overall software architectures stay
(mostly) unchanged for a long time, and so I figured that's possibly the
case for Postgresql as well. But I didn't know, which is why I asked.

Kind regards,
Christian

On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 11:11 AM, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>wrote:

>
> On 12/27/2013 10:55 AM, Christian Convey wrote:
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>> Hi guys,
>>
>> I'm starting to poke around the internals of Postgres. Does anyone know
>> the extent to which Thomas Lockhart's book, "PostgresSQL Programmer's
>> Guide" is accurate with respect to the current state of the code base?
>>
>>
>>
> Umm, that book was published in 2000, from what I can see on Amazon. Would
> you use a book published 13 years ago to educate yourself on, say, the
> Linux code base? 13 years is an eternity in this business.
>
> cheers
>
> andrew
>
>