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Postgresql Programmer's Guide

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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.

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.
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