Thread: Postgresql educational sources

On Wed, 7 Apr 2004, Nid wrote:

> Rather than ask some general, unanswerable question on how to tune my
> database...I thought I ask where I might find an introduction to...or
> manual/tutorial for the depths of managing a postgres db.  Books?
> Websites?  Assume a basic to intermediate knowledge of DBs in general
> with a desire to learn about postgres from the ground up.  If it makes a
> difference I'm using a postgres db in a Red Hat Linux OS environment.
> Thanks!

The online (adminstration) docs are quite good, and for tuning, look at
the excellent tuning document on varlena:

http://www.varlena.com/varlena/GeneralBits/Tidbits/perf.html

On Wed, 2004-04-07 at 16:27, scott.marlowe wrote:
> On Wed, 7 Apr 2004, Nid wrote:
>
> > Rather than ask some general, unanswerable question on how to tune my
> > database...I thought I ask where I might find an introduction to...or
> > manual/tutorial for the depths of managing a postgres db.  Books?
> > Websites?  Assume a basic to intermediate knowledge of DBs in general
> > with a desire to learn about postgres from the ground up.  If it makes a
> > difference I'm using a postgres db in a Red Hat Linux OS environment.
> > Thanks!
>
> The online (adminstration) docs are quite good, and for tuning, look at
> the excellent tuning document on varlena:
>
> http://www.varlena.com/varlena/GeneralBits/Tidbits/perf.html
>

Actually I might rather suggest looking at
http://techdocs.postgresql.org/  which has a slew of
links/articles/tutorials regarding development and administration of
postgresql databases (including a link to Scott's aforementioned doc)

Robert Treat
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