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Re:In Praise of PostgreSQL by bogomipz on Thursday August 05, 2021 @02:13PM (#28077434)
Could anyone recommend a good and current book on Postgres?
Re:In Praise of PostgreSQL by VWWHFSfQ on Thursday August 05, 2021 @02:56PM (#28077971)
Re:In Praise of PostgreSQL by claytonjy on Thursday August 05, 2021 @05:39PM (#28080281)
As a counterpoint, I did not like this book and learned much more efficiently from the postgres docs
Re:In Praise of PostgreSQL by bogomipz on Thursday August 05, 2021 @05:58PM (#28080518)
Can you say what you didn't like about it? It's a little pricey so I would be curious to hear your feedback.
Re:In Praise of PostgreSQL by claytonjy on Saturday August 07, 2021 @11:16AM (#28099177)
It's been a couple years but I found it very verbose and not very well edited. It may have improved since then. I did appreciate their push towards doing more in the DB and less in the app layer, though, and I wish more devs would hear that message!
Re:In Praise of PostgreSQL by natrys on Friday August 06, 2021 @06:19AM (#28085247)
1. Learn PostgreSQL: Build and manage high-performance database solutions using PostgreSQL 12 and 13 - Luca Ferrari, Enrico Pirozzi is current, and covers a lot of Postgres specific grounds in a structured manner. The examples are sometimes too succinct and hard to follow though, but I find it good for quickly looking things up, specifically the management side of things.

2. PostgreSQL Query Optimization: The Ultimate Guide to Building Efficient Queries - Henrietta Dombrovskaya, Boris Novikov, Anna Bailliekova is quite new, and exclusively focuses on query side of things, but goes deep into this topic. I haven't read it though, only flipped through the pages but it seems good.

Re:In Praise of PostgreSQL by mixmastamyk on Thursday August 05, 2021 @04:27PM (#28079272)
I liked the o'Reilly book, Postgres: Up and Running approachable if you have some db experience. It is short and to the point.
Re:In Praise of PostgreSQL by thisisbrians on Friday August 06, 2021 @02:38PM (#28091226)
I am also interested.