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On Sat, 20 Jan 2001, Ron Peterson wrote: >Randall Hofland wrote: >> PostgreSQL: Introduction and Concepts >> >> by Bruce Momjian > >This has been available in pdf format from the PostgreSQL web site for >some time. If it hasn't already, it will be removed shortly by request >of the publisher. To encourage people to buy the book, obviously. The >content is available in html at: > >http://www.postgresql.org/docs/awbook.html. > >As to it's usefulness, I guess that depends on what you already know and >your objectives. I think the title is pretty descriptive - it's a good >introduction to PostgreSQL. If you're interested in more advanced >topics like how to program triggers in C, you'll need to consult other >reference documentation. > >Bruce's writing is clear, and the book's organization is quite >sensible. The book itself benefits from the open source process, as >it's been available online for comment during the entirety of it's >creation. Bruce is a PostgreSQL developer, and one of the more active >contributers to the PostgreSQL discussion lists. I think this gives him >a pretty keen sense of what types of issues the book needs to cover to >address an introductory audience. Thanks for the link, and wget. :) Haven't perused it yet, though I'll probably head over to B&N immediately (/me checks clock) to look for it because I'm computer-book insane. :) I'm also beginning to learn PostgreSQL, for use with OpenACS. I'd like to find a book the level and caliber of "MySQL" by Paul DuBois; in that case, I'd gladly buy the so-called deadtree version. I think I even like PostgreSQL better than MySQL now (no grumbling from the crowd, please :). It has object-like tables, so you can do inheritance with them, and it also has this PL/pgSQL language which you can use to program it (I just learned about this kind of thing from a "bootcamp" where we used Oracle with PL/SQL); it makes things pretty slick when you can just do class_foo.new( name => 'george' age => 25 ) (maybe the syntax isn't right, I just mean for example) for inserting new rows into the database, and class_foo.list_by_age() and it returns them ordered by age, things like that. Also, there is an Emacs Lisp API. :) :) - Subcription/unsubscription/info requests: send e-mail with "subscribe", "unsubscribe", or "info" on the first line of the message body to discuss-request at blu.org (Subject line is ignored).
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