Practical PostgreSQL

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Sales Rank: 48567 Studio: O'Reilly Media, Inc. Related Items: PostgreSQL (2nd Edition) (Developer's Library) Beginning Databases with PostgreSQL: From Novice to Professional, Second Edition (Beginning from Novice to Professional) PostgreSQL Essential Reference Beginning PHP and PostgreSQL 8: From Novice to Professional (Beginning: From Novice to Professional) Learning the bash Shell (In a Nutshell (O'Reilly)) see more Editorial Review: Product Description: Arguably the most capable of all the open source databases, PostgreSQL is an object-relational database management system first developed in 1977 by the University of California at Berkeley. In spite of its long history, this robust database suffers from a lack of easy-to-use documentation. Practical PostgreSQL fills that void with a fast-paced guide to installation, configuration, and usage. This comprehensive new volume shows you how to compile PostgreSQL from source, create a database, and configure PostgreSQL to accept client-server connections. It also covers the many advanced features, such as transactions, versioning, replication, and referential integrity that enable developers and DBAs to use PostgreSQL for serious business applications. The thorough introduction to PostgreSQL's PL/pgSQL programming language explains how you can use this very useful but under-documented feature to develop stored procedures and triggers. The book includes a complete command reference, and database administrators will appreciate the chapters on user management, database maintenance, and backup & recovery. With Practical PostgreSQL, you will discover quickly why this open source database is such a great open source alternative to proprietary products from Oracle, IBM, and Microsoft. Also included is a CD-ROM with Command Prompt's PostgreSQL Application Server, LXP. The CD covers LXP version 0.8.0 and PostgreSQL version 7.1.3. Customer Reviews Average Rating: Rating: - Written ages ago This book used to be a good reference for PostgreSQL 7.4. However there is much more to PostgreSQL nowadays then it was six years ago. This book has a problem that I guess most SQL books suffer from. It has a very long introduction to SQL itself. Which is not bad if you are a complete beginner. The book is somewhat boring to read, without that additional value because of which you buy a book. It lacks additional information on advanced PostgreSQL features, programming in PL/pgsql, replication, ... Read More Rating: - Nice for PostgreSQL intro, but not a master piece The book covers the basics of PostgreSQL, but it lacks usefull info for the more avanced tasks like tuning the database. The 'stored procedure' (PL/pgSQL) chapter was for me the only interesting part of this book for me. When I bought this I was hoping for the PostgreSQL 'Bible', but it was a big dissapointment. My advice for improvement for the next release: - much better index - drop LXP chapter - chapter about how to tune (not just SQL statements, but the postgreSQL ... Read More Rating: - Very Practical, Very PostgreSQL The Command Prompt guys did a fine job of writing this book. It contains basic topics, like retrieving rows from a table, and advanced topics, like session encryption, JDBC, and PL/pgSQL, and everything in between. A very complete SQL command listing is available at the back of the book, as well, for those times when you can't quite remember proper syntax. Furthermore, it covers all the tools provided with PostgreSQL distributions (vacuumdb, etc.) and has a chapter on the included LXP software, which I ... Read More Rating: - The critics are unfair, this book is VERY good I wanted to buy this book a few months ago, but after reading the reviews I relented. Finally, a few weeks ago I needed a book on PostgreSQL and it was the only one available, so I bought it. Since then I have referred to it almost everyday in my database programming duties. It is well made, well presented and goes into minute details that other books simply skip. Normally I would have given this book 4 stars, but after being misled by the bad reviews below I decided it well deserved the extra star. My only ... Read More Rating: - Excellent book, Learning PostgreSQL a better title This is an excellent book to begin learning about the most advanced open source database available, it covers the theory and history of PostgreSQL and includes instructions on installing the database server. The authors clearly explain the topics covered in the book, I've given the book to several co-workers who were interested in the book and they also view it favorably. I recommend this book to the person interested in learning more about PostgreSQL or the person who has never used a database server ... Read More see more Browse for similar items by category: Databases - Computers & Internet - Subjects - Books - Data Mining SQL Computers & Internet - Subjects - Books - Databases Unix Administration

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