Thread: need some advanced books on Postgres
sigh,I didn't find a book with enough internal topics.
On Friday 05 March 2010 02.27:39 Thomas wrote:
> sigh,I didn't find a book with enough internal topics.
>
I found the official documentation very good, for everything else ask here
or (for the gory details) on -hackers. Or, of course, read the source,
Luke.
cheers
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On 05/03/10 01:27, Thomas wrote: > sigh,I didn't find a book with enough internal topics. You're never going to see a book covering the PostgreSQL internals. You'd sell (at most) 100 copies and need to do major updates once a year. It'd be several months work to write and only a handful of people are really qualified to do so. Like Adrian said - read the docs, and a polite question on the hackers list will always get a polite response (although it might not be instant - bear in mind people are in different timezones and they have a release to get out). There's also the developer side of the website and wiki. http://www.postgresql.org/developer/ http://developer.postgresql.org/index.php/Main_Page http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Development_information -- Richard Huxton Archonet Ltd
Richard Huxton <dev@archonet.com> writes: > On 05/03/10 01:27, Thomas wrote: >> sigh,I didn't find a book with enough internal topics. > You're never going to see a book covering the PostgreSQL internals. The way you're meant to learn about that is to read the source code. Start with http://developer.postgresql.org/pgdocs/postgres/internals.html and then start poking around in whatever part of the source tree interests you. There are also README files in many of the source directories. regards, tom lane
Good advice ,tks both of you . For database books ,I found so many good books on Oracle,some on mysql,but db2 and postgres, so few. I have to read some books on Oracle for some advanced topics,although oracle and postgres are different ,I also get some useful info from it . I hope postgres will be as popular as linux one day , :)
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