From: | "Andrew C(dot)R(dot) Martin" <a(dot)c(dot)r(dot)martin(at)reading(dot)ac(dot)uk> |
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To: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>, PostgreSQL-general <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: [ANNOUNCE] PostgreSQL book completed though chapter 10 |
Date: | 2000-04-04 09:04:20 |
Message-ID: | 00040410200301.16492@sapc13.rdg.ac.uk |
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On Fri, 31 Mar 2000, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> I have completed the first draft of my book through chapter 10.
>
Bruce, it's looking very nice!
Just browsing the TOC though, a couple of things struck me as odd/missing and
if I were reviewing the book when finished I'd query these!
First the pitch of the book seems a bit mixed. There is a lot of
introductionary material on how to create a table, joins etc. inthe early
chapters, but the book also covers quite advanced topics like user-defined
functions. The reader is either going to skip the early chapters, or get lost
in the later ones. If you really do want to cover such a broad spectrum, what
about splitting the book into Part I - Introducing RDBMS and Part II - Using
PostgreSQL (or something similar)
Information on primary/foreign key constraints only appeared under the
'Joining Tables' chapter - I don't know how complete this chapter is, but the
terms were defined with no suggestions about creating tables using these terms
or using other constraints.
I could see nothing about the object-relational features in terms of creating
tables, etc.
I would really like to see a PostgreSQL SQL reference as well - this I guess
would be taken largely from the man pages.
In summary, I like the style and the contents as far as it goes, but I think
there are some important things missing (judging from the TOC) and personally I
feel the organisation is a little odd.
Hope you feel these comments have been useful.
Best wishes,
Andrew
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