Re: MySQL versus Postgres - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Ian Barwick
Subject Re: MySQL versus Postgres
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In response to Re: MySQL versus Postgres  (Rikard Bosnjakovic <rikard.bosnjakovic@gmail.com>)
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2010/8/6 Rikard Bosnjakovic <rikard.bosnjakovic@gmail.com>:
> On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 04:41, John Gage <jsmgage@numericable.fr> wrote:
>
> [...]
>> So, perhaps what is needed in any sort of battle with MySQL is an
>> introductory documentation that gives specific examples of how to achieve
>> "oh wow!" worthwhile results quickly with Postgres.
>
> Bruce Momjian's book is an excellent primer:
> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/books/awbook.html

It is *very* outdated (I remember using that to get started myself,
almost 10 years ago) and a lot has been improved since then.

Ian Barwick

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