Re: PostgreSQL book

Hasn't been released for print yet... you can download a PDF version of it
at www.postgresql.org

Adam Lang
Systems Engineer
Rutgers Casualty Insurance Company
----- Original Message -----
From: "Giorgio Ponza" <giorgio@opla.it>
To: "Marc SCHAEFER" <schaefer@alphanet.ch>; <pgsql-general@postgresql.org>
Sent: Wednesday, October 11, 2000 11:37 AM
Subject: R: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL book


> Marc SCHAEFER wrote that the Addison-Wesley wrote a book on PostgreSQL.
> Anyone can give me the title and the author or the way to find it? Here in
> italy i can't find nothing !!
> Thanks
>
> -----Messaggio Originale-----
> Da: "Marc SCHAEFER" <schaefer@alphanet.ch>
> A: <pgsql-general@postgresql.org>
> Data invio: Tuesday, October 10, 2000 03:51 PM
> Oggetto: [GENERAL] Some advanced database features, are they present in
> PostgreSQL
>
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have been using PostgreSQL a bit and I have been surprised by the good
> > quality, the features, and now the Addison-Wesley book which is
excellent.
> > However, I have some questions about the implementation of a few
> > additional features.
> >
> > I suppose that PostgreSQL hasn't any ability to do the following yet:
> >
> >    - log all transactions to a special log file, that can be used for
> >      backup purposes: ie you dump the database every day, but you keep
> >      the transaction log on a separate disk. Should the database disk
> >      crash, you won't have any data loss if you restore the backup and
> >      replay the transaction log.
> >
> >    - hard transactions: cutting the power to a PostgreSQL server
> >      may cause data loss and/or data corruption. Some databases use
> >      sophisticated techniques to ensure serialization of operation
> >      through journaling, redoing some of the transactions at
> >      bootup time if required.
> >
> >    - the ability to synchronize two database servers, with only the
> >      changes being exchanged, live. Or the ability to have many
> >      servers in a load-balancing or data scattering pool.
> >
> >    - ability to have databases bigger than the host's maximum file size
> >
> > if this is true, can someone tell me why it hasn't been implemented yet
> > (there might be very good reasons), if it will be, and if the task seems
> > complicated.
> >
> > thank you for your time.
> >
> >
> >
> >