Postgresql Programmer's Guide [Paperback]

Thomas Lockhart (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 2000

Postgres, developed originally in the UC Berkeley Computer Science Department, pioneered many of the object-relational concepts now becoming available in some commercial databases. It provides SQL92/SQL3 language support, transaction integrity, and type extensibility. PostgreSQL is an open-source descendant of this original Berkeley code.

PostgreSQL Programmer's Guide describes version 7.0 of Postgres.

Chapters include: * Extending SQL * The Postgres Rule System * Interfacing Extensions To Indices * Linking Dynamically-Loaded Functions * Triggers * Server Programming Interface *Large Objects * libpq-C Library * libpq-C++ Binding Library * pgtcl-TCL Binding Library * ODBC Interface * JDBC Interface * Lisp Programming Interface * Overview of PostgreSQL Internals * Frontend/Backend Protocol * Postgres Signals * gcc Default Optimizations

Product Details

• Paperback: 520 pages
• Publisher: Iuniverse Inc (December 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0595149170
• ISBN-13: 978-0595149179
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.4 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #7,057,671 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Good content, bad presentation, November 28, 2001

By 

Erik Rogneby (Seattle, WA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Postgresql Programmer's Guide (Paperback)

You can tell this was written by back-end guys because the UI is terrible.

I am not sure what was used to write this book (I think DocBook) but it doesn't much take into account that humans will be reading it.

Glaringly absent is an index. Also the table of contents was polluted by giving seven lines for each function in the API list. Not to mention the API is in the middle of the book and visually confusing.

How did this book earn 3 stars from me? It does in fact contain content useful to anyone who wants to seriously hack on postgresql.

3 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Travails of open source publishing, June 16, 2003

By 

Thomas Lockhart (South Pasadena, CA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Postgresql Programmer's Guide (Paperback)

I haven't actually seen the book (nor spoken to the publisher), but can guess that it contains the documentation I (and others) had written while participating in PostgreSQL development.
I'm glad that someone has found the book to be useful, but wish that whoever published this as a hardcopy had taken the time to prepare an index (if in fact one is not present) and to organize the information in a more pleasing way.
My star rating is based solely on the other reviewer's evaluation.