Re: ANY GOOD USER'S GUIDE ONLINE?? (with simple examples)

I think you may find the Practical PostgreSQL book from O'Reilly/Command
Prompt a bit more helpful. (I intend no slight toward Mr. Momjian or his
fine work. We clearly owe him a lot. I do think the Introductions and
Concepts book is a hair too terse for beginners.) It's reasonably
well-written--with the exception of the LXP chapter, which looks like the
work of different person style-wise--and is a little more complete in its
coverage of things like pl/pgsql.
-J

Jason Earl
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02/21/02 12:36 PM

I would highly recommend Bruce Momjian's excellent Book, PostgreSQL:
Introduction and Concepts. It is available online here:

http://www.ca.postgresql.org/docs/aw_pgsql_book/index.html

It's also available at all of your better bookstores :).

Jason

"paul simdars" <psimdars(at)lisco(dot)com> writes:

> I am trying to get started with Postgres but it ain't easy. The
> documentation, although it may be thorough and very exhaustive, doesn't
> have much of practical value in it. I looked in a FAQ which came with
> the download -- again, not much useful there unless you wanted to write a
> dissertation. Then I found a 'User's Guide' and thought, "Of course, I
> have been looking a 'documentation', which, when you think about it, has
> done a great job of docmenting, but a 'User's Guide', that's what I've
> been looking for!"
> Well, it wasn't a real user's guide. I have been able to find useful
> items here and there but you have to dig through so much information that
> the frustration gets very high.
> Like, I am looking for how to insert a timestamp when a record has been
> updated. I have found the data type timestamp defined and documented in
> documentation, FAQ and 'User's Guide', but nowhere is there an example of
> how one would actually insert a timestamp into a record.
> Yes, I do have the question of the timestamp, but No that is not my main
> question. My main question is this "does there exist a real User's Guide
> in postgres-land, with actual examples of how to IMPLEMENT all this
> beautifully docmented material?"
> Sorry for putting you through this (if you made it this far), but I just
> needed to get this out of my system.
> Thanks,
> Paul
>
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