Re: postgresql books

Christopher Browne <cbbrowne(at)acm(dot)org> wrote:

> Centuries ago, Nostradamus foresaw when sql(at)zeouane(dot)org would write:
> > "Gevik babakhani" <gevik(at)xs4all(dot)nl> wrote:
> >
> >> Beside the documentation, which pg book would you recommend? Which one is
> >> your personal favorite pg book?
> >
> > I saw an O'Reilly book [1] this afternoon at a bookshop here in
> > Paris .. 'had to fight the urge to get my credit card out ... :-)
> > Anyone know if it's any good ?
>
> It's a bit dated, being based on the state of things in the 6.5/7.0
> days, but is still quite useful.
>
> It's frankly the one I keep on my desk the most, as I particularly
> like its summary of the built-in functions of any of the books out
> there.
>
> The Douglas & Douglas book has one of the best descriptions going on
> how to read query plans, so it's plenty useful in that regard...

Thing is, does it give more info than the User and Programmers' guides,
which I already have in pdf format from the site ?

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D.C.