Обсуждение: The best book
Hello fellows! Which the best book all you can tell me to buy for Administering PostGres and knows the tricks of it? .............................................. A Question... Since before your sun burned hot in space and before your race was born, I have awaited a question. Elielson Fontanezi DBA Technical Support - PRODAM +55 11 5080 9493
Hi Elielson, Nice question. :) The "best book" for you really depends on what you are after! Are you interested in a book which is easy to read, gives good foundational concepts, and gives you decent skills with PostgreSQL, but may not make you a guru? Or, are you more after a book which is more technically advanced and challenging, and assumes you have already learnt the easier stuff? There are also reference volumes available (if that's what you're after, but it doesn't sound like it). The online books which are available have a decent amount of material in them too, and you can buy hard copies of them so you have them nearby at all times. So... for us to *really* be able to give you good suggestions, we really need to know more about what you're truly needing. Hope that helps. :-) Regards and best wishes, Justin Clift Elielson Fontanezi wrote: > > Hello fellows! > > Which the best book all you can tell me to buy for Administering > PostGres > and knows the tricks of it? > > .............................................. > A Question... > Since before your sun burned hot in space and before your race was born, I > have awaited a question. > > Elielson Fontanezi > DBA Technical Support - PRODAM > +55 11 5080 9493 > > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- > TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command > (send "unregister YourEmailAddressHere" to majordomo@postgresql.org) -- "My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there." - Indira Gandhi
Note - millions of cross-posts deleted... I have read the Momjian book and am now working with the O'Reilly book. I have not gotten far enough into the O'Reilly book to give an accurate representation of what I think it contains but going by the TOC I am planning on enjoying it. I see the Momjian book is a very good book for the intended audience (I think it is targeted at users that are new to both Postgres and SQL). I was (still am) familiar with SQL but nowhere close to being a master of it (see Celko for mastering SQL) and found the description of how Postgres implemented certain features of the language to be useful. I also found the book to be very helpful for getting a database up and running along with the basic user administration and security. However, the reason I went out and got the O'Reilly book was what I perceived as a lack of depth in terms of administration and security. The basic coverage is there but not a lot of depth. I'm hopeful the O'Reilly book will have that for me. The Momjian book also appears to be a significant compilation of the electronic docs that are available for download. If you are like me and prefer dead trees to reading a book on a CRT then it is most definitely worth it for that reason alone. I think that the techdocs section of the website should provide you with a lot of material that will, at worst, give you the background to ask good questions. rjsjr > -----Original Message----- > From: pgsql-general-owner@postgresql.org > [mailto:pgsql-general-owner@postgresql.org]On Behalf Of Elielson > Fontanezi > Sent: Friday, July 26, 2002 1:59 PM > To: pgsql-general > Cc: pgsql-obc; pgsql-admin > Subject: [GENERAL] The best book > > > Hello fellows! > > Which the best book all you can tell me to buy for Administering > PostGres > and knows the tricks of it? > > .............................................. > A Question... > Since before your sun burned hot in space and before your race was born, I > have awaited a question. > > Elielson Fontanezi > DBA Technical Support - PRODAM > +55 11 5080 9493 > > > > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- > TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command > (send "unregister YourEmailAddressHere" to majordomo@postgresql.org) >
Hi, Well depends what are you looking for. I am using a lot PostgreSQL: Introduction and Concepts by Bruce Momjian. Then I have bought "PHP and PostgreSQL Advanced Web Programming" by Ewald Geschwinde and Hans-Juergen Schoenig The second one has as well PHP programming tips and same examples. The book is good and is covering as well PG administration. Mailing list I think is important and has good tips and don't forget the documentation: http://www.us.postgresql.org/users-lounge/docs/#7.2 You might find under: http://www.us.postgresql.org/books/index.html more details. stefan On Fri, 26 Jul 2002, Elielson Fontanezi wrote: > Hello fellows! > > Which the best book all you can tell me to buy for Administering > PostGres > and knows the tricks of it? > > .............................................. > A Question... > Since before your sun burned hot in space and before your race was born, I > have awaited a question. > > Elielson Fontanezi > DBA Technical Support - PRODAM > +55 11 5080 9493 > > > > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- > TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command > (send "unregister YourEmailAddressHere" to majordomo@postgresql.org) >