| From: | Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> |
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| To: | Thalis Kalfigkopoulos <tkalfigo(at)gmail(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Matthew Kappel <mkappel(at)cray(dot)com>, "pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: PostgreSQL training recommendations? |
| Date: | 2012-10-16 18:34:37 |
| Message-ID: | 20121016183437.GF7480@momjian.us |
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On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 02:53:14PM -0300, Thalis Kalfigkopoulos wrote:
> I assume the EntrerpriseDB certification seminars are an obvious quick
> answer: http://www.enterprisedb.com/products-services-training/training/dba-training
>
> But TBH, I find the PostgreSQL manual to be an excelent guide if you
> don't mind reading. It is extremely well written (kudos to whoever is
> on the writing team), definitely written by experts, it delves
> reasonably enough into detail where
> needed and most of all: it serves not only as a Pg manual, but as a DB
> theory/good practice manual as well. I realize that 2.8Kpages is not
> easy to digest, but the first 30 Chapters seem to cover more than
> enough to just get you started (though not Slony/pgpool).
I think the big thing the training manual is missing is giving
inexperienced users a framework to understand all the pieces. Training
does help in that area, and I am unclear how we could improve the manual
to address that.
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Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> http://momjian.us
EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com
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