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I purchased two books today, to help me learn PostgreSQL (mine is on
Windows).
The first book (see subject) is published by APRESS www.apress.com
A zipped download of all scripts/examples is at the site.
I just went through the first exercise, using isql, and I was pleased to
discover (this was my own experiment) that if I created a script.sql file with
\i commands to run all the other script files, that it works just fine.
\i drop_tables.sql;
\i create_tables_bpsimple.sql; \i pop_customer.sql; \i pop_item.sql; \i pop_barcode.sql; \i pop_orderinfo.sql; \i pop_orderline.sql; \i pop_stock.sql; Quickly glancing through the book in the store, I noticed that it addresses
both Linux and Windows users, and has a few pages devoted to the windows install
(which I used) as well as the ODBC install.
The other book I purchased is "Beginning Access 2000 VBA" by Smith &
Sussman, WROX press, which comes with a CD. I am going to learn VBA and
use it as a scripting language to talk to PostgreSQL. It has some pages
devoted to the mysteries of linking to an ODBC datasource, which may be helpful.
It comes with a CD in the back, with exercises and
files.
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