sql@xxxxxxxxxxx writes: > Christopher Browne <cbbrowne@xxxxxxx> wrote: > >> Centuries ago, Nostradamus foresaw when sql@xxxxxxxxxxx would write: >> > "Gevik babakhani" <gevik@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> > >> >> Beside the documentation, which pg book would you recommend? Which one is >> >> your personal favorite pg book? >> > >> > I saw an O'Reilly book [1] this afternoon at a bookshop here in >> > Paris .. 'had to fight the urge to get my credit card out ... :-) >> > Anyone know if it's any good ? >> >> It's a bit dated, being based on the state of things in the 6.5/7.0 >> days, but is still quite useful. >> >> It's frankly the one I keep on my desk the most, as I particularly >> like its summary of the built-in functions of any of the books out >> there. >> >> The Douglas & Douglas book has one of the best descriptions going on >> how to read query plans, so it's plenty useful in that regard... > > Thing is, does it give more info than the User and Programmers' guides, > which I already have in pdf format from the site ? There is more material in general in the documentation provided with PostgreSQL, and that material is more up to date. But if you want a "dead trees" copy of something that you can take places where you don't have a computer, PDF files aren't generally too much good. I know I pull out _Practical PostgreSQL_ more often than I do the Douglas & Douglas book, despite the latter being quite a lot newer. -- (format nil "~S@~S" "cbbrowne" "acm.org") http://www.ntlug.org/~cbbrowne/sap.html Rules of the Evil Overlord #78. "I will not tell my Legions of Terror "And he must be taken alive!" The command will be: ``And try to take him alive if it is reasonably practical.''" <http://www.eviloverlord.com/> ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly
