Thread: book for postgresql
> -----Original Message----- > From: Christopher Browne [mailto:cbbrowne@acm.org] > Sent: 10 February 2004 01:57 > To: "pgsql-admin@postgresql.org.pgsql-general"@postgresql.org > Subject: Re: [GENERAL] book for postgresql > - O'Reilly has a third one that is also "dated but good." Beware, I have this book. It is indeed very well written in the tradition of O'Reilly books, but was published in January 2002 so it is very out of date. It covers up to v7.1.x. Postgresql has moved on a lot since then, just look at the changelog!
also, as much as i really like o'reilly books in general, i find the index in this one quite lacking. Benjamin Jury wrote: >>-----Original Message----- >>From: Christopher Browne [mailto:cbbrowne@acm.org] >>Sent: 10 February 2004 01:57 >>To: "pgsql-admin@postgresql.org.pgsql-general"@postgresql.org >>Subject: Re: [GENERAL] book for postgresql >> >> > > > >>- O'Reilly has a third one that is also "dated but good." >> >> > >Beware, I have this book. It is indeed very well written in the tradition of >O'Reilly books, but was published in January 2002 so it is very out of date. >It covers up to v7.1.x. Postgresql has moved on a lot since then, just look >at the changelog! > >---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- >TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate > subscribe-nomail command to majordomo@postgresql.org so that your > message can get through to the mailing list cleanly > > >
Stephen Howard wrote: > also, as much as i really like o'reilly books in general, i find the > index in this one quite lacking. > Yeah, I agree, and I work with one of the authors and he says the same thing! (long story, not worth it) In its stead, you can search and read the entire book at our website below. And since the book was written for 7.1, we put up a simultaneous search of the book with the current official PostgreSQL techdocs. -- Best, Al Hulaton | Sr. Account Engineer | Command Prompt, Inc. 503.667.4564 | ahulaton@commandprompt.com Home of Mammoth Replicator for PostgreSQL Managed PostgreSQL, Linux services and consulting Read and Search O'Reilly's 'Practical PostgreSQL' at http://www.commandprompt.com