Re: Book recommendation?

From: tv(at)fuzzy(dot)cz
To: "Herouth Maoz" <herouth(at)unicell(dot)co(dot)il>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Book recommendation?
Date: 2011-02-01 16:04:56
Message-ID: 072362d5ac2e4ef4a6ce39cb42eed9b3.squirrel@sq.gransy.com
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> As a result of my recent encounter with table bloat and other tuning
> issues I've been running into, I'm looking for a good resource for
> improving my tuning skills.
>
> My sysadmin ran into the following book:
>
> PostgreSQL 9.0 High Performance, by Gregory Smith, ISBN 184951030X
> http://amzn.com/184951030X
>
> Which covers versions 8.1 through 9.
>
> Any opinions on this book? Other suggestions?

100% positive - go and buy it. It's very thorough, it covers a lot of
associated topics (hw, filesystem, ...) and it's fresh. There were several
reviews at planet.postgresql.org and all of them weve very positive.

regards
Tomas

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