Re: AW: Addison-Wesley looking for authors

On Thu, 01 Mar 2001 21:04, Jens Hartwig wrote:
> Hello all, hello Bruce,
>
> first of all I want to say, that Bruces Book was very well done in my
> opinion!

I think we all concur with that opinion.

> To answer the question, I already began writing a book about PostgreSQL
> for Addison Wesley in Germany. It will be released in autumn this year
> in german language.

> Perhaps it could be translated by Addison Wesley Corp.?

Please could you encourage them to do this, or perhaps do it yourself?
You seem to have a good knowledge of English.

> My book does not try to compete with Bruces book (I wouldnt dare to do
> ;->), it rather does complete the theme while it will contain many, many
> examples from real life (besides many small examples, the whole book is
> accompanied by one constantly growing example)

That is the way to do it.
For me anyway, disjointed snippets of code are horrible.

> and it will contain a
> rather complex section about PL/pgSQL-programming and application
> development, also accompanied by many examples.
>
> At least I would like to thank Bruce for the offered help - I surely
> will remember ;-)


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