-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 30 Jan 2008 13:20:58 -0500 Tom Hart <tomhart@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > regards, tom lane > > > I agree that it would be useful as an introduction, but I have 4 > years of mySQL experience (I know, I'm sorry) and I've been working > with postgres for the past 3-4 months during which time I've built a > data mine by hand, and set up a few different web apps running > against it (drupal, openreports, etc.) so I think I'm past the > introduction phase. What I was looking for was an intermediate level > (call me presumptuous) book with more performance tips and advanced > techniques/functions. Even though this book may have some sort of > this information in it, it's going to be based on 7.x and the entire > thing is available online (as well as the docs, which personally I > like). The above sounds like you want a cookbook not a manual. In proper open source fashion perhaps you could start documenting the things you learn and post them to Techdocs :) Sincerely, Joshua D. Drake - -- The PostgreSQL Company: Since 1997, http://www.commandprompt.com/ Sales/Support: +1.503.667.4564 24x7/Emergency: +1.800.492.2240 Donate to the PostgreSQL Project: http://www.postgresql.org/about/donate PostgreSQL SPI Liaison | SPI Director | PostgreSQL political pundit -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHoMJ4ATb/zqfZUUQRAh5mAKCsjIbE7dw+fljZitcMpw0t7vd1vQCdHh9g i/I1lcXst6i+FfO5+JpKVrs= =cSfc -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ---------------------------(end of broadcast)---------------------------TIP 9: In versions below 8.0, the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index scan if your joining column's datatypes do not match
