From: | Michael Alan Dorman <mdorman(at)debian(dot)org> |
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To: | pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: What's a good PostgreSQL guide book? |
Date: | 2003-03-27 13:05:07 |
Message-ID: | 87wuilq7ss.fsf@amanda.mallet-assembly.org |
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"Gary Hendricks" <ghendricks(at)yahoo(dot)com> writes:
> I'm thinking of buying "Practical PostgreSQL" from O'Reilly.
>
> Has anyone got any comments on this book?
As Christopher Browne pointes out, some of the information is
outdated.
My real criticism, though, would be that *far* too much of a book
about PostgreSQL is an advertisment for the authors' company's
application framework thing. This necessarily means fewer pages for
what you're supposedly there for, PostgreSQL.
> Can anyone suggest alternatives?
I'm on a plane right at the momen , but the _PostgreSQL Developers
Reference_ (I believe that's the title) from SAMS, by Geschwinde &
someone else, is clear, comprehensive, and, on everything I've ever
checked, correct.
I would buy it again in a heartbeat.
Mike
--
I'd write a song called "Senorita with a Necklace of Tears" -- Paul Simon
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