Thread: Teach Yourself PostgreSQL book
In searching on the Internet, I found various references to the book "Teach Yourself PostgreSQL In 21 Days", written by Chris Smith, published by SAMS, December 2002 (from the Barnes and Noble web site), ISBN 0672324830, 600 pages (from http://202.113.6.251/cat/books/0672324830.html). References to it, are easily found by doing a google search on the string "teach yourself postgresql". After contacting SAMS about the book, as I could not find a retailer who stocks the book, despite retailers advertising the book for sale, the book appears to have not been published. Does anyone know what happened to it, and whether Chris Smith or anyone else, intends to have the book published? I ask this as one of the people who would find such a book useful (or so I believe). I have searched the PostgreSQL archives for references to the book, and the search engine returned no results found. Thank you in anticipation. -- Bret Busby Armadale West Australia .............. "So once you do know what the question actually is, you'll know what the answer means." - Deep Thought, Chapter 28 of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: A Trilogy In Four Parts", written by Douglas Adams, published by Pan Books, 1992 ....................................................
Oops! bret@busby.net (Bret Busby) was seen spray-painting on a wall: > In searching on the Internet, I found various references to the book > "Teach Yourself PostgreSQL In 21 Days", written by Chris Smith, > published by SAMS, December 2002 (from the Barnes and Noble web site), > ISBN 0672324830, 600 pages (from > http://202.113.6.251/cat/books/0672324830.html). Late 2002 was "not a good time" for technical book publishing. WROX went out of business at about that time, and it would be unsurprising for the project to have been cancelled before the book reached general release. (I had a book Fail Utterly at about that time, when WROX went under...) -- If this was helpful, <http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=cbbrowne> rate me http://www3.sympatico.ca/cbbrowne/publications.html A VAX is virtually a computer, but not quite.
bret@busby.net says... > In searching on the Internet, I found various references to the book > "Teach Yourself PostgreSQL In 21 Days", written by Chris Smith, > published by SAMS, December 2002 (from the Barnes and Noble web site), > ISBN 0672324830, 600 pages (from > http://202.113.6.251/cat/books/0672324830.html). I've been looking at books recently - Bruce Momjian is good introductory stuff as is Worsley and Drake (O'Reilly). Paul... -- plinehan x__AT__x yahoo x__DOT__x com C++ Builder 5 SP1, Interbase 6.0.1.6 IBX 5.04 W2K Pro Please do not top-post.