Re: postgresql books

Dear All,

Beside the documentation, which pg book would you recommend? Which one is
your personal favorite pg book?

Regards

Gevik.

Gevik babakhani wrote:

> Dear All,
>
>
>
> Beside the documentation, which pg book would you recommend? Which one
> is your personal favorite pg book?
>
>
>
> Regards
>
> Gevik.
>
>
>
PostgreSQL by Korry Douglas and Susan Douglas is an excellent book, but
a little out of date. I beleive a new edition is in the works.

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I think it hits the press in June or July 2005???

On 6/3/05, Brad Nicholson <bnichols(at)ca(dot)afilias(dot)info> wrote:
>
> Gevik babakhani wrote:
>
> > Dear All,
> >
> >
> >
> > Beside the documentation, which pg book would you recommend? Which one
> > is your personal favorite pg book?
> >
> >
> >
> > Regards
> >
> > Gevik.
> >
> >
> >
> PostgreSQL by Korry Douglas and Susan Douglas is an excellent book, but
> a little out of date. I beleive a new edition is in the works.
>
> --
> Brad Nicholson 416-673-4106
> Database Administrator, Afilias Canada Corp.
>
>
>
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"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 ?

[1] <http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/ppostgresql/index.html>
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> "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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Christopher Browne <cbbrowne(at)acm(dot)org> wrote:

> 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...

Thing is, does it give more info than the User and Programmers' guides,
which I already have in pdf format from the site ?

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sql(at)zeouane(dot)org wrote:
> Christopher Browne <cbbrowne(at)acm(dot)org> wrote:
>
>
>>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.

Just FYI the french version of the O'Reilly book covers 7.1 IIRC.

Sincerely,

Joshua D. Drake

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sql(at)zeouane(dot)org writes:
> Christopher Browne <cbbrowne(at)acm(dot)org> wrote:
>
>> 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...
>
> Thing is, does it give more info than the User and Programmers' guides,
> which I already have in pdf format from the site ?

There is more material in general in the documentation provided with
PostgreSQL, and that material is more up to date.

But if you want a "dead trees" copy of something that you can take
places where you don't have a computer, PDF files aren't generally too
much good.

I know I pull out _Practical PostgreSQL_ more often than I do the
Douglas & Douglas book, despite the latter being quite a lot newer.
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Korry's book is slated for July (hey Korry, send me a review copy eh?) and
should expand on his previous book (including info on slony iirc) which was
quite good.

The newest book currently on the market is Begining Database w/ PostgreSQL,
which I did some work on. I thought it was pretty good if you want a
beginer's level book. It also has some stuff on 8.0 and the windows install
which I dont think any other book has (yet) so there's some certainly some
newer content in there.

There are a couple of other books in the works that I am aware of, but none
due out till late fall at the earliest afaik, so those are probably your best
choices.

Robert Treat

On Friday 03 June 2005 17:23, Bob wrote:
> I think it hits the press in June or July 2005???
>
> On 6/3/05, Brad Nicholson <bnichols(at)ca(dot)afilias(dot)info> wrote:
> > Gevik babakhani wrote:
> > > Dear All,
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Beside the documentation, which pg book would you recommend? Which one
> > > is your personal favorite pg book?
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Regards
> > >
> > > Gevik.
> >
> > PostgreSQL by Korry Douglas and Susan Douglas is an excellent book, but
> > a little out of date. I beleive a new edition is in the works.
> >
> > --
> > Brad Nicholson 416-673-4106
> > Database Administrator, Afilias Canada Corp.
> >
> >
> >
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I would recomend Postgresql by Korry and Susan Douglas, I think most
people use this as there resource :)

I think a new version for postgres 8 is comming out soon

On Tuesday 07 June 2005 20:43, Jamie Deppeler wrote:
> I would recomend Postgresql by Korry and Susan Douglas, I think most
> people use this as there resource :)
>
> I think a new version for postgres 8 is comming out soon
>

Thanks for that bit of wisdom... however next time if you could leave in the
quotes from the previous emails where we say pretty much the exact same thing
only with more detail and actually useful information, it would really be
something.

:-)

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