Thread: Any comments on any of the recent crop of books?

It appears we have gone from famine to feast in a few short months.
Where there was just one there is now a growing crop of postgresql
books in the book stores. I recently picked up Wrox's "Databases with
Postgresql" a few weeks back and found it to be a good introductory
book that lives up to Wrox's reputation for quality. Has anyone else
picked up this or any of the other new titles? If so, what do you
think of them?

-J

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Wesley Sheldahl
12/10/2001 11:35 AM

To:   "jeff scott" <scott%powersurf.ca@interlock.lexmark.com> @ LEXMTA
cc:

Subject:  Re: [GENERAL] Any comments on any of the recent crop of books?
      (Document link: Wesley Sheldahl)

New Riders just put out "PostgreSQL Essential Reference", which is exactly that:
a reference book. It's great when you're wondering "now how exactly do I...." or
"what's the syntax for adding a constraint to a table again?", but you need to
have a good idea what you're looking for. There's a little narrative, a little
introductory commentary at the beginning of each section and the occasional
'gotcha' gets mentioned, but mainly it's a decent reference for looking stuff
up.

--Wes Sheldahl


"jeff scott" <scott%powersurf.ca@interlock.lexmark.com> on 12/07/2001 10:14:20
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cc:    (bcc: Wesley Sheldahl/Lex/Lexmark)
Subject:  [GENERAL] Any comments on any of the recent crop of books?


It appears we have gone from famine to feast in a few short months.
Where there was just one there is now a growing crop of postgresql
books in the book stores. I recently picked up Wrox's "Databases with
Postgresql" a few weeks back and found it to be a good introductory
book that lives up to Wrox's reputation for quality. Has anyone else
picked up this or any of the other new titles? If so, what do you
think of them?

-J


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For a good beginning book, I love Bruce Momjian's "PostgreSQL"

I'm an application developer and I also do a little PostgreSQL
administration and this book was a great introductory and taught me
everything I need to know to work with the database.

Troy Campano

-----Original Message-----
From: jeff scott [mailto:scott@powersurf.ca]
Sent: Friday, December 07, 2001 10:14 AM
To: pgsql-general@postgresql.org
Subject: [GENERAL] Any comments on any of the recent crop of books?


It appears we have gone from famine to feast in a few short months. Where
there was just one there is now a growing crop of postgresql books in the
book stores. I recently picked up Wrox's "Databases with Postgresql" a few
weeks back and found it to be a good introductory book that lives up to
Wrox's reputation for quality. Has anyone else picked up this or any of the
other new titles? If so, what do you think of them?

-J


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