Good (introductory) book

Boget, Chris wrote:

What would you guys recommend as a good
introductory book for PG? One that talks
about and goes into the features, use and
administration of PG and not necessarily
just SQL? I went looking and found a bunch
on various web bookstores and am not sure
which to pick up. So I'm curious what you
would recommend.

Hi Chris,

Bruce Momjian's book "PostgreSQL: Introduction and Concepts" is a pretty
good intro to PostgreSQL, although it does target an older release of
PostgreSQL:

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/awbook.html

Hope this helps.

:-)

Regards and best wishes,

Justin Clift

Thanks

Chris

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On Tue, 21 Jan 2003 08:04:39 -0500
pgsql-general-owner@postgresql.org wrote:

Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2003 06:07:42 -0600
From: "Boget, Chris" <chris@wild.net>

What would you guys recommend as a good
introductory book for PG? One that talks
about and goes into the features, use and
administration of PG and not necessarily
just SQL?

I found "PostgreSQL - professionell und praxisnah" by Jens Hartwig to be
the best currently avalable book on Postgres. Unfortunately it is only
available in German.

Here is my review that I have sent several months ago to
the maintainer of the PG Book-Review sites (it has not (yet?) found
its way on the web site):

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This book aims at developers with some basic database experience
who want to explore PostgreSQL. It spans the bow from installation and
administration over transcation management and advanced PG-specific features
(listen, blobs, rules, regexps...) up to server side (PL/PGSQL, C functions)
and client side programming (libpq, esql, libpq++, jdbc, php).

Unlike other introductory textbooks, which leave you at a loss when
trying to accomplish more than the trivial examples in those textbooks,
this book covers all topics in considerable depth. Strongly
recommended not only to database professionals, but also to newbies looking
for a somewhat beefier introduction to PostgreSQL.

Christoph Dalitz

Christoph Dalitz wrote:
<snip>

I found "PostgreSQL - professionell und praxisnah" by Jens Hartwig to be
the best currently avalable book on Postgres. Unfortunately it is only
available in German.

Here is my review that I have sent several months ago to
the maintainer of the PG Book-Review sites (it has not (yet?) found
its way on the web site):

Ouch. That's probably my fault.

Ok, adding it now.

Sorry about that Christoph.

Regards and best wishes,

Justin Clift

Christoph Dalitz

--
"My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those
who work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the
first group; there was less competition there."
- Indira Gandhi

For a beginning book, I would recommend 'Beginning Databases with
PostgreSQL' by Richard Stones and Neil Matthew. It's a well-rounded book
that doesn't assume you know a lot. Before you buy a book, I would look
at the free books online. See:

http://www.commandprompt.com/ppbook/
http://www.ca.postgresql.org/docs/awbook.html

George Essig