Re: Learning PostgreSQL

Neil Conway wrote:
> On Sun, 2003-10-05 at 17:45, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > Neil Conway wrote:
> > > Depending on what part of the source you're interested in, a book on
> > > DBMS implementation might also be useful, such as
>
> > Wow, $100.
>
> Well, it's a CS textbook -- I have several textbooks this semester that
> are > $100.
>
> > Does it cover internals?
>
> Yeah, although it's more of a broad survey of DB-related topics, so the
> internals coverage isn't that in-depth. It talks about storage/indexing
> (the heap, ISAM/B+-tree indexes, hash indexes, etc.), query evaluation,
> query optimization, transaction management & concurrency control.
>
> That book just happens to be the one on my desk, but there are plenty of
> alternatives that cover the same subject matter.
>
> Perhaps you could add this to the developer's FAQ?

Yes, is this the book we should recommend? I know we have Gray's
transaction book on there already.

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