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Title: PostgreSQL by Jeff Perkins ISBN: 1-931841-42-X Publisher: Learning Express Pub. Date: October, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $39.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 2.67 (3 reviews)
Rating: 2
Summary: Not Quite there
Comment: This book isn't as powerful as I had hoped. It was a weak general introduction, and not enough to get you going all by itself. I was dissappointed that the postgresql syntax in the book didn't seem to still be the same as the syntax used in the postgresql version included in Red Hat 7.3.
This left me high and dry on how many arguments to pass to the pg_connect command. I was treated better by the MySQL database.
Rating: 4
Summary: A good introduction
Comment: I looked through several PostgreSQL books before deciding to buy this one. It had everything I needed to get PostgreSQL up and running in Linux. I especially like the sections on the different API's available. It covers more languages and has more details about the API's than the other books I saw, which is surprising for a book that's not that big. The sections on PL/PGSQL and the Tcl interface are very good. I think it's more geared to developers than administrators. The only complaint I have is that it didn't go into a lot of detail on setting up security, I had to dig through the official docs for that. Overall, I'm very pleased with the book. It's not a complete reference, but it's a good introduction that will get you started.
Rating: 2
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Comment: My expectations might have been set better if the title was something like "Special Edition Teach Yourself Relational Databases Using PostgreSQL in 24 Hours For Dummies".
I think this book is extremely thin on useful relevant content, although not completely without value; nevertheless, the books "PostgreSQL Essential Reference" and "Begininning Databases with PostgreSQL" are available now, and in my opinion they are vastly more useful than this book.
NB: "Practical PostgreSQL" is not out yet as I write this review.
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Title: PostgreSQL: Introduction and Concepts by Bruce Momjian ISBN: 0201703319 Publisher: Pearson Education Pub. Date: 15 December, 2000 List Price(USD): $47.99 |
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Title: PostgreSQL Developer's Handbook (Developer's Library) by Ewald Geschwinde, Hans-Jüergen Schöenig ISBN: 0672322609 Publisher: Sams Pub. Date: 18 December, 2001 List Price(USD): $44.99 |
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Title: Beginning Databases with PostgreSQL by Richard Stones, Neil Matthew ISBN: 1861005156 Publisher: Wrox Press Pub. Date: September, 2001 List Price(USD): $39.99 |
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Title: PHP and PostgreSQL Advanced Web Programming by Ewald Geschwinde, Hans-Juergen Schoenig ISBN: 0672323826 Publisher: SAMS Pub. Date: 15 June, 2002 List Price(USD): $49.99 |
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Title: Practical PostgreSQL (O'Reilly Unix) by Command Prompt Inc, John C. Worsley, Joshua D. Drake ISBN: 1565928466 Publisher: O'Reilly Pub. Date: January, 2002 List Price(USD): $44.95 |
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