Thread: New Book: PostgreSQL: The Elephant Never Forgets
Open Docs Publishing has announced today that they plan to release their sixth book entitled "Learning PostgreSQL: The Elephant Never Forgets" by the first week of June. This title will include PostgreSQL Great Bridge version 7.1 (The Linux World Editors winner for Best Database in 2000). This will offer to companies the security of a replication server, data backup services, disaster recovery, and business continuity solutions previously limited to more costly commercial Relational Database Management System (RDBMS) packages. Who could ask for more? Open Docs has gone one step further by not only including the complete source code for PostgreSQL , but also the LXP application server as well. The book will fully document installation procedures, administration techniques, usage, basic programming interfaces, and replication capabilities of PostgreSQL. A complete reference guide will also be included. Databases have become the core infrastructure of e-business, and once again Open Docs has put their writers hard at work to make sure that you will find this guide to be informative and everything you have been looking for in a PostgreSQL technical reference. About Postgres and PostgreSQL: Postgres is an active Database Management System that was originally developed at U.C. Berkeley. The Postgres project was led by Professor Michael Stonebraker. The project was originally funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) , the Army Research Office (ARO) , along with the National Science Foundation (NSF) , and the English as a Second Language Program (ESL). The Postgres project officially ended with version 4.2. As the development of Postgres continued, it was renamed Postgres95 and SQL capabilities were added. During the continual evolution of Postgres95, it was later renamed PostgreSQL. The name PostgreSQL was chosen to reflect the standards based nature of the product and to allow comparison with commercial databases such as Sybase and Informix. About Open Docs Publishing: Open Docs is a publishing company specializing in technical books. They are a full service publishing company that offers authoring, editing, along with specialized programs that would allow companies to maintain their focus on development. Open Docs strives to maintain tight quality control to ensure that they publish only the best books. They take pride in the work that others find mind numbing; documentation. Open Docs currently has three books in print. The third book, "Securing and Optimizing Linux; Red Hat Edition" is the number one selling book and has been for six months on LinuxCentral.com, a premiere online Linux retailer. They are currently preparing their fourth title "Getting Stated with Yellow Dog Linux". If you would like to read more about Open Docs and their Open Source Documentation Fund you can visit their web site at www.opendocspublishing.com.
On Tue, 20 Mar 2001, Joshua Drake wrote: > > Open Docs Publishing has announced today that they plan to release their > sixth book entitled "Learning PostgreSQL: The Elephant Never Forgets" by > the first week of June. This title will include PostgreSQL Great Bridge > version 7.1 (The Linux World Editors winner for Best Database in 2000). WTFI "PostgreSQL Great Bridge version 7.1" ????? Is GB putting out their own releases now? Ned? Bruce? Vince. -- ========================================================================== Vince Vielhaber -- KA8CSH email: vev@michvhf.com http://www.pop4.net 56K Nationwide Dialup from $16.00/mo at Pop4 Networking Online Campground Directory http://www.camping-usa.com Online Giftshop Superstore http://www.cloudninegifts.com ==========================================================================
This is news to me, and does not represent any action taken by Great Bridge. We'll be talking with Joshua Drake directly, then report back to the list. Vince Vielhaber wrote: > On Tue, 20 Mar 2001, Joshua Drake wrote: > >> Open Docs Publishing has announced today that they plan to release their >> sixth book entitled "Learning PostgreSQL: The Elephant Never Forgets" by >> the first week of June. This title will include PostgreSQL Great Bridge >> version 7.1 (The Linux World Editors winner for Best Database in 2000). > > > WTFI "PostgreSQL Great Bridge version 7.1" ????? Is GB putting out > their own releases now? Ned? Bruce? > > Vince. -- ---------------------------------------------------- Ned Lilly e: ned@greatbridge.com Vice President w: www.greatbridge.com Evangelism / Hacker Relations v: 757.233.5523 Great Bridge, LLC f: 757.233.5555
> On Tue, 20 Mar 2001, Joshua Drake wrote: > > > > > Open Docs Publishing has announced today that they plan to release their > > sixth book entitled "Learning PostgreSQL: The Elephant Never Forgets" by > > the first week of June. This title will include PostgreSQL Great Bridge > > version 7.1 (The Linux World Editors winner for Best Database in 2000). > > WTFI "PostgreSQL Great Bridge version 7.1" ????? Is GB putting out > their own releases now? Ned? Bruce? I think they called their previous release Great Bridge PostgreSQL 7.0.3. They usually match our numbering. Is that the question? -- Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us pgman@candle.pha.pa.us | (610) 853-3000 + If your life is a hard drive, | 830 Blythe Avenue + Christ can be your backup. | Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania 19026
Joshua Drake writes: > Open Docs Publishing has announced today that they plan to release their > sixth book entitled "Learning PostgreSQL: The Elephant Never Forgets" by > the first week of June. Interesting. I must have missed the previous five books entitled "Learning PostgreSQL: The Elephant Never Forgets". -- Peter Eisentraut peter_e@gmx.net http://yi.org/peter-e/
> Joshua Drake writes: > > > Open Docs Publishing has announced today that they plan to release their > > sixth book entitled "Learning PostgreSQL: The Elephant Never Forgets" by > > the first week of June. > > Interesting. I must have missed the previous five books entitled > "Learning PostgreSQL: The Elephant Never Forgets". I like the title. Catchy. :-) -- Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us pgman@candle.pha.pa.us | (610) 853-3000 + If your life is a hard drive, | 830 Blythe Avenue + Christ can be your backup. | Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania 19026
Hello, We had offered communication to Great Bridge without much reply. Our intention was to include the downloadable version of the software and possibly some other things if Great Bridge agrees. Joshua Drake On Wed, 21 Mar 2001, Ned Lilly wrote: > This is news to me, and does not represent any action taken by Great > Bridge. We'll be talking with Joshua Drake directly, then report back > to the list. > > > > Vince Vielhaber wrote: > > > On Tue, 20 Mar 2001, Joshua Drake wrote: > > > >> Open Docs Publishing has announced today that they plan to release their > >> sixth book entitled "Learning PostgreSQL: The Elephant Never Forgets" by > >> the first week of June. This title will include PostgreSQL Great Bridge > >> version 7.1 (The Linux World Editors winner for Best Database in 2000). > > > > > > WTFI "PostgreSQL Great Bridge version 7.1" ????? Is GB putting out > > their own releases now? Ned? Bruce? > > > > Vince. > > > -- -- <COMPANY>CommandPrompt - http://www.commandprompt.com </COMPANY> <PROJECT>OpenDocs, LLC. - http://www.opendocs.org </PROJECT> <PROJECT>LinuxPorts - http://www.linuxports.com </PROJECT> <WEBMASTER>LDP - http://www.linuxdoc.org </WEBMASTER> -- Instead of asking why a piece of software is using "1970s technology," start asking why software is ignoring 30 years of accumulated wisdom. --