Books for PostgreSQL?

[G Lam]

Hi, I have some experience in MS Access 97 and 2000 and did write some
application with them. Now, I want to learn PostgreSQL. I installed it on a
RH8.0 server. Which books would you guys recommand?
Thank you.
Gary

[Tom Van den Brandt]

G Lam wrote:

Hi, I have some experience in MS Access 97 and 2000 and did write some
application with them. Now, I want to learn PostgreSQL. I installed it on
a RH8.0 server. Which books would you guys recommand?
Thank you.
Gary

Well Gary, I'm a newbie too and I found that 'PostgreSQL' by Douglas &
Douglas (ISBN: 0735712573) offers a very good introduction. I haven't
gotten a lot further than that for the moment, but the rest of the book
looks very prommising too. You should check the customer-reviews on Amazon
or something. You'll probably find more booktitles and info there...

Greetz
--
Tom Van den Brandt
I try...

[Kaarel]

>

Hi, I have some experience in MS Access 97 and 2000 and did write some
application with them. Now, I want to learn PostgreSQL. I installed it on a
RH8.0 server. Which books would you guys recommand?

Well there are official documentation of course
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/ which are very good. But since you asked
for books, there are some printed books available online:
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/awbook.html and
http://www.commandprompt.com/ppbook/book1.htm

Kaarel
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[Christoph Becker]

Together with the official documentation I still use
PostgreSQL - Introduction and Concepts from Bruce Momjian. He should write a
much more comprehensive (tuning, large objects vs bytea) and updated (to 7.4)
2nd edition, but it is still very good and really worth the money.
Regards
Christoph
Am Donnerstag, 21. August 2003 05:13 schrieb G Lam:

Hi, I have some experience in MS Access 97 and 2000 and did write some
application with them. Now, I want to learn PostgreSQL. I installed it on a
RH8.0 server. Which books would you guys recommand?
Thank you.
Gary

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[Ron]

G Lam wrote:

Hi, I have some experience in MS Access 97 and 2000 and did write some
application with them. Now, I want to learn PostgreSQL. I installed it on a
RH8.0 server. Which books would you guys recommand?
Thank you.
Gary

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'PostgreSQL Essential Reference' by Barry Stinson is a useful book to
have at your desk, it's the only one I use. As the name suggests, it's a
reference and not a database/SQL how-to for total database newbies. OTOH
I *can't* recommend the O'Reilly book because the index is very poor,
making it useless as reference material.

Ron
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[Al Hulaton]

> Hi, I have some experience in MS Access 97 and 2000 and did write some

application with them. Now, I want to learn PostgreSQL. I installed it
on a
RH8.0 server. Which books would you guys recommand?

Well, I'm a little biased because I work at the author's shop :), but I
use Practical PostgreSQL from O'Reilly (link below also has the book
online). And I also use Bruce Momjian's PostgreSQL Introduction and
Concepts book a lot -- it's been commuting with me to work for the past
few weeks.

I'm always on the lookout for more PostgreSQL books so I'll be
following this thread with interest.

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[scott.marlowe]

I'll second the usefulness of Bruce's book. I still refer to it
years after buying it.

I'd highly recommend either of the two books out by Sams with by Hans and
Ewald. Both very good good books. One is just purely Postgresql, the
other is a PHP/Postgresql book.

On Wed, 27 Aug 2003, Christoph Becker wrote:

Together with the official documentation I still use
PostgreSQL - Introduction and Concepts from Bruce Momjian. He should write a
much more comprehensive (tuning, large objects vs bytea) and updated (to 7.4)
2nd edition, but it is still very good and really worth the money.
Regards
Christoph
Am Donnerstag, 21. August 2003 05:13 schrieb G Lam:

Hi, I have some experience in MS Access 97 and 2000 and did write some
application with them. Now, I want to learn PostgreSQL. I installed it on a
RH8.0 server. Which books would you guys recommand?
Thank you.
Gary

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[Ron Johnson]

On Wed, 2003-08-20 at 22:13, G Lam wrote:

Hi, I have some experience in MS Access 97 and 2000 and did write some
application with them. Now, I want to learn PostgreSQL. I installed it on a
RH8.0 server. Which books would you guys recommand?

As important as the book: what version are you using? That which
comes with RH8.0? It is recommended that you upgrade to v7.3.4.

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[Matthew Wissell]

You could try postgres documentation at http://www.postgresql.org/docs/

or there is an online book titled 'PostgreSQL: Introduction and Concepts'
at http://candle.pha.pa.us/main/writings/computer.html
G Lam wrote:

Hi, I have some experience in MS Access 97 and 2000 and did write some
application with them. Now, I want to learn PostgreSQL. I installed it on a
RH8.0 server. Which books would you guys recommand?
Thank you.
Gary

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[Heath Tanner]

Not to take anything away from the books on the topic, but my favorite
source is the docs that got installed with postgres
(/usr/local/pgsql/doc/html).

The index isn't great, but easily overcome:
grep -i "search phrase" /usr/local/pgsql/doc/html/* | less

Try to do that with a book. :-)

When I can't find the answer there, I search the mailing list archives
and/or google.

-heath

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[Chris Webster]

> Not to take anything away from the books on the topic, but my favorite

source is the docs that got installed with postgres
(/usr/local/pgsql/doc/html).

The index isn't great, but easily overcome:
grep -i "search phrase" /usr/local/pgsql/doc/html/* | less

Try to do that with a book. :-)

When I can't find the answer there, I search the mailing list archives
and/or google.

I'm sorry, but I'm also a DB newbie, and I find the online documentation
ok/good, and very good if you are a seasoned user who just needs
reference. It esp sucks regarding the configuration file. Yes it
explains each line item, but not how it affects the database, when do
you want a large value here, when do you want a small value, etc. This
fact is born out by the number of times people have to respond with "did
you tweak xxxx in the config file?" Maybe the books aren't any better....

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[Shridhar Daithankar]

On 28 Aug 2003 at 7:55, Chris Webster wrote:

Not to take anything away from the books on the topic, but my favorite
source is the docs that got installed with postgres
(/usr/local/pgsql/doc/html).

The index isn't great, but easily overcome:
grep -i "search phrase" /usr/local/pgsql/doc/html/* | less

Try to do that with a book. :-)

When I can't find the answer there, I search the mailing list archives
and/or google.

I'm sorry, but I'm also a DB newbie, and I find the online documentation
ok/good, and very good if you are a seasoned user who just needs
reference. It esp sucks regarding the configuration file. Yes it
explains each line item, but not how it affects the database, when do
you want a large value here, when do you want a small value, etc. This
fact is born out by the number of times people have to respond with "did
you tweak xxxx in the config file?" Maybe the books aren't any better....

http://www.varlena.com/varlena/Gener...ed_conf_e.html
http://www.varlena.com/varlena/Gener...bits/perf.html

These are actually collections of FAQ put in a nice sugar candy.

HTH

Bye
Shridhar

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