On Fri, 1 Feb 2008 20:16:50 -0500 (EST) Greg Smith <gsmith@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I think the market for a PostgreSQL book is limited by a few things: > > 1) There just aren't that many potential buyers (yet!) As someone who *still* gets royalty checks for his 6 year old book, I disagree. > 2) The included documentation is too good I could buy into this one to a degree. > 3) There's way too much community-generated material like the mailing > lists available Yep. > 4) Multiple earlier free books are already floating around > Bingo! The reality is for the majority of intro topics even the 6 year old book is more than relevant. Where Practical falls down is talking about things like background writer or vacuum. Those particular topics are covered ad-naseum in the docs. Joshua D. Drake -- The PostgreSQL Company since 1997: http://www.commandprompt.com/ PostgreSQL Community Conference: http://www.postgresqlconference.org/ Donate to the PostgreSQL Project: http://www.postgresql.org/about/donate PostgreSQL SPI Liaison | SPI Director | PostgreSQL political pundit
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