Re: postgresql book - practical or something newer?

From: "Dave Page" <dpage(at)postgresql(dot)org>
To: rod(at)iol(dot)ie
Cc: "Gregory Stark" <stark(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, "Ow Mun Heng" <Ow(dot)Mun(dot)Heng(at)wdc(dot)com>, "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, "Tom Hart" <tomhart(at)coopfed(dot)org>, "Postgres General List" <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: postgresql book - practical or something newer?
Date: 2008-01-30 11:48:05
Message-ID: 937d27e10801300348y1b3586degcdecb266a833486b@mail.gmail.com
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On Jan 30, 2008 11:35 AM, Raymond O'Donnell <rod(at)iol(dot)ie> wrote:
> On 30/01/2008 11:27, Gregory Stark wrote:
>
> > In fact I think most of the features you'll look for examples of will be from
> > the last 1-2 years. When 8.3 comes out people will be looking for whole books
> > on XML functionality, tsearch implementations, etc, and there will be nothing
> > aside from the manual since they're all brand new features.
>
> Isn't this the idea of the interactive online docs? People can add stuff
> they find useful for others. The PHP docs have tons of extra snippets
> added by users - some dross, granted, but there's a lot of good stuff
> there too.

It most certainly is, please, add away! The comments are moderated, so
hopefully there's not too much dross in ours!

/D

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