Thread: New book on Postgres
We are evaluating a ten-page proposal for a new book on Postgres and are looking for a few people to advise us on its viability. If interested, please email me at tedken@manning.com with a brief description of your credentials and a statement that you agree to non-disclosure of it and I will send you more information.
Hello! wers regarding a book proposal on Regarding the book proposal on Postgres: I can tell you that the world needs a Postgres book! Specifically, I would like to see the following topics covered: - table-inheritance: what does it mean, how does it work, examples - regular expressions in queries: examples - PL/pgSQL: thorough coverage and examples - pg_options file: complete explanation of all options, and detailed coverage of performance-tuning and troubleshooting - creating and adding new types/operators/etc. The most important things to remember are: 1) We do not need another SQL book, we need a PostgreSQL book 2) examples, examples, examples Thanks! B-) -- Bill@Wadley.org Bill.Wadley.org/PGP_KEY.html "The dinosaurs became extinct because they didn't have a space program."-Larry Niven
> 1) We do not need another SQL book, we need a PostgreSQL book Yes. Something focused in admin. tasks would be an essential book. > 2) examples, examples, examples or an URL to find them ;) > > Thanks! My thanks too. Pablo.
On Tue, 6 Jun 2000 bill@wadley.org wrote: > Hello! wers regarding a book proposal on > > Regarding the book proposal on Postgres: I can tell you that the world > needs a Postgres book! Bruce Momjian has almost completed his, and you can see it on the main PostgreSQL website. Brett W. McCoy http://www.chapelperilous.net --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Screw up your courage! You've screwed up everything else.
On Wed, 07 Jun 2000, Ted Kennedy wrote: > We are evaluating a ten-page proposal for a new book on Postgres and are > looking for a few people to advise us on its viability. If interested, > please email me at tedken@manning.com with a brief description of your > credentials and a statement that you agree to non-disclosure of it and I > will send you more information. How are you getting on with this? Havn't heard from you for a while? -- Sincerely etc., NAME Christopher SawtellCELL PHONE 021 257 4451ICQ UIN 45863470EMAIL csawtell @ xtra . co . nzCNOTES ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/languages/C/tutorials/sawtell_C.tar.gz -->> Please refrain from using HTML or WORD attachments in e-mails to me <<--