From: | "Roderick A(dot) Anderson" <raanders(at)acm(dot)org> |
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To: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
Cc: | Neil Conway <neilc(at)samurai(dot)com>, Gevik Babakhani <gevik(at)xs4all(dot)nl>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: Learning PostgreSQL |
Date: | 2003-10-07 21:39:26 |
Message-ID: | Pine.LNX.4.33.0310071345440.24224-100000@main.cyber-office.net |
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On Sun, 5 Oct 2003, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> 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.
I just got a message from Wiley about new tech books but can't justify a
desk copy as I only teach part time at a two year college and not
database. But ... I looked at a sample chapter and saw PostgreSQL as the
RDBMS. That was a plus in my book.
The author is Richard Watson and I feel I know the name but can't place
him.
http://he-cda.wiley.com/WileyCDA/HigherEdTitle/productCd-0471347116,courseCd-IS1900.html
Rod
--
"Open Source Software - Sometimes you get more than you paid for..."
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