| From: | Christopher Browne <cbbrowne(at)acm(dot)org> |
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| To: | pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: postgresql books |
| Date: | 2005-06-04 18:16:24 |
| Message-ID: | m31x7irnrb.fsf@knuth.cbbrowne.com |
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Centuries ago, Nostradamus foresaw when sql(at)zeouane(dot)org would write:
> "Gevik babakhani" <gevik(at)xs4all(dot)nl> wrote:
>
>> Beside the documentation, which pg book would you recommend? Which one is
>> your personal favorite pg book?
>
> I saw an O'Reilly book [1] this afternoon at a bookshop here in
> Paris .. 'had to fight the urge to get my credit card out ... :-)
> Anyone know if it's any good ?
It's a bit dated, being based on the state of things in the 6.5/7.0
days, but is still quite useful.
It's frankly the one I keep on my desk the most, as I particularly
like its summary of the built-in functions of any of the books out
there.
The Douglas & Douglas book has one of the best descriptions going on
how to read query plans, so it's plenty useful in that regard...
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