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Editorial Reviews
About the Author
Leo Hsu is a co-principal of Paragon Corporation, a database consulting company based in Boston. He has over 15 years of professional experience developing and thinking about databases for organizations large and small. Leo holds an MS degree in engineering of economic systems from Stanford University and BS degrees in mechanical engineering and economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He co-authored PostGIS in Action.
Reviews:
5.0 out of 5 stars For when you need to fully utilize PostgreSQL
I'm at a place where I no longer use ORMs but straight SQL, and need to utiliez every feature of a DB instead of replicating it in code. This results in much less code, and a much faster app. This book helped (and is still helping) me learn Postgres features and how it all works. Keen for the 4th edition.
5.0 out of 5 stars Very good book if you're familiar with SQL databases and want to migrate to Postgres
This is for the Kindle version of 3rd edition. I had the first edition of the book in paperback but the font is very small and hard to read. I imagine that the . The 3rd edition in Kindle format is very good though, and has been updated for Postgres 9.6 with some tips about features from 10.0.I've tried many other Postgres books but they are mostly written poorly and seem like they never passed through an editor, at least not an English-speaking one. The 3rd edition of this book is written much better than the others, including the 1st edition.One thing that I found a bit strange and doesn't really belong in a database programming/administration book was the examples in the Full Text Search section:"If you type in the search term _lots of steamy sex scenes_, you might end up with nothing...""For example, if you're interested in viewing movies where sex is depicted with smoking, you could search for the two words _sex_ and _smoking_""_And so they smoked after sex_"And few more mentions of the word "sex" in that section.I am really not a prude. I just think that they could have come up with some more appropriate examples. Also, smoking is really bad for you!
4.0 out of 5 stars Great content, poor print quality
The contents and writing are at least 4 stars.I bought this book first on Kindle, but I found the subject matter difficult to enjoy as an ebook; so I purchased the print edition.To my tremendous disappointment, the print copy’s images are surprisingly illegible. The images are in grayscale (not in color as in the e-book version), very faint and with very low contrast (almost faded looking), and quite grainy, lacking clear definition. I had expected the images to be sharp and colorful, like those in the ebook.Bolo, do any of your copies of this book have better images? Did I get a bad print?
5.0 out of 5 stars IRS uses postgresql
IRS my office need some bkgrd
5.0 out of 5 stars Great intro to features and capabilities of Postgres
The first book on PG I read. Really helped me undersrand the landscape. If you have decided to deploy and manage a Postgre database, I would highly this book.
4.0 out of 5 stars Essential Book
I am old fashioned. I read books. Books like this allows you to ramp up quickly. If I were to try to ramp postgres by online searches, I will be proceeding at 1/10 the pace. After reading a few pages in chapter 1, the objects displayed by pgAdmin no longer seem like gibberish to me.
2.0 out of 5 stars Does not cover Postgres Internals
Does not cover internals or concepts like using XMIN. I was hoping to at least get diagrams and an intro into how Postgres was designed.
4.0 out of 5 stars The book is well written, needs to go into a little more detail on installation best practices
I enjoyed the book and it was well written, (even for beginning users), the only reason why I didn't give it 5 stars is it lacked examples of best practices for fine-tuning during and after the installation process. For me I wished it would have walked through that process, especially for newer users. Overall a good book and worth purchasing.
Excellent - readable and a good learning experience
A unique style, well written and easily readable. Postgres is not a small topic, so this book condenses a lot of information into a small space. Do not expect this to be your only learning tool. You need more (well I did). I found myself enjoying the read and at the same time using the internet to fill in gaps.Worthwhile. Recommended.
A struggle to follow the book.
Unfortunately the book is written in a way that makes it hard to follow.The examples are rushed and poorly designed and there are almost no parallels to the real world.The backup/recovery chapter is also just a simple copy/paste from the official pg_dump, pg_restore syntax with very little punctual explanations.
Onesta panoramica di PostgreSQL
Il libro è un'onesta panoramica delle caratteristiche di PostgreSQL, con riferimenti alle novità introdotte nelle ultime release.Tutto però è trattato senza approfondimenti, rimandati a pagine di cui viene fornita la URL abbreviata, senza dire quando si sta linkando il manuale di PostgreSQL, quando articoli tecnici.
Excellent overview of PostgreSQL and what’s new in PostgreSQL 10
Excellent overview of PostgreSQL and what’s new in PostgreSQL 10.Succinct - not padded out with bumpf you can find elsewhere.Covers the key concepts and things you need to know to get started and introductory information on other interesting topics that you can then delve into elsewhere.Recommended introduction to PostgreSQL and up-to-date.
Practical? More like just a reference book
Even as a reference book, this is just not what you'd want to read, I would have returned this book if I had the patience to do that.To give you a perspective, one of the things you'd use a lot in Postgres is inner join. I could not find any explanation of how that works anywhere in the book at all. That's just one example.
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Description:
Editorial Reviews
About the Author
Leo Hsu is a co-principal of Paragon Corporation, a database consulting company based in Boston. He has over 15 years of professional experience developing and thinking about databases for organizations large and small. Leo holds an MS degree in engineering of economic systems from Stanford University and BS degrees in mechanical engineering and economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He co-authored PostGIS in Action.
Reviews:
5.0 out of 5 stars For when you need to fully utilize PostgreSQL
I'm at a place where I no longer use ORMs but straight SQL, and need to utiliez every feature of a DB instead of replicating it in code. This results in much less code, and a much faster app. This book helped (and is still helping) me learn Postgres features and how it all works. Keen for the 4th edition.
5.0 out of 5 stars Very good book if you're familiar with SQL databases and want to migrate to Postgres
This is for the Kindle version of 3rd edition. I had the first edition of the book in paperback but the font is very small and hard to read. I imagine that the . The 3rd edition in Kindle format is very good though, and has been updated for Postgres 9.6 with some tips about features from 10.0.I've tried many other Postgres books but they are mostly written poorly and seem like they never passed through an editor, at least not an English-speaking one. The 3rd edition of this book is written much better than the others, including the 1st edition.One thing that I found a bit strange and doesn't really belong in a database programming/administration book was the examples in the Full Text Search section:"If you type in the search term _lots of steamy sex scenes_, you might end up with nothing...""For example, if you're interested in viewing movies where sex is depicted with smoking, you could search for the two words _sex_ and _smoking_""_And so they smoked after sex_"And few more mentions of the word "sex" in that section.I am really not a prude. I just think that they could have come up with some more appropriate examples. Also, smoking is really bad for you!
4.0 out of 5 stars Great content, poor print quality
The contents and writing are at least 4 stars.I bought this book first on Kindle, but I found the subject matter difficult to enjoy as an ebook; so I purchased the print edition.To my tremendous disappointment, the print copy’s images are surprisingly illegible. The images are in grayscale (not in color as in the e-book version), very faint and with very low contrast (almost faded looking), and quite grainy, lacking clear definition. I had expected the images to be sharp and colorful, like those in the ebook.Bolo, do any of your copies of this book have better images? Did I get a bad print?
5.0 out of 5 stars IRS uses postgresql
IRS my office need some bkgrd
5.0 out of 5 stars Great intro to features and capabilities of Postgres
The first book on PG I read. Really helped me undersrand the landscape. If you have decided to deploy and manage a Postgre database, I would highly this book.
4.0 out of 5 stars Essential Book
I am old fashioned. I read books. Books like this allows you to ramp up quickly. If I were to try to ramp postgres by online searches, I will be proceeding at 1/10 the pace. After reading a few pages in chapter 1, the objects displayed by pgAdmin no longer seem like gibberish to me.
2.0 out of 5 stars Does not cover Postgres Internals
Does not cover internals or concepts like using XMIN. I was hoping to at least get diagrams and an intro into how Postgres was designed.
4.0 out of 5 stars The book is well written, needs to go into a little more detail on installation best practices
I enjoyed the book and it was well written, (even for beginning users), the only reason why I didn't give it 5 stars is it lacked examples of best practices for fine-tuning during and after the installation process. For me I wished it would have walked through that process, especially for newer users. Overall a good book and worth purchasing.
Excellent - readable and a good learning experience
A unique style, well written and easily readable. Postgres is not a small topic, so this book condenses a lot of information into a small space. Do not expect this to be your only learning tool. You need more (well I did). I found myself enjoying the read and at the same time using the internet to fill in gaps.Worthwhile. Recommended.
A struggle to follow the book.
Unfortunately the book is written in a way that makes it hard to follow.The examples are rushed and poorly designed and there are almost no parallels to the real world.The backup/recovery chapter is also just a simple copy/paste from the official pg_dump, pg_restore syntax with very little punctual explanations.
Onesta panoramica di PostgreSQL
Il libro è un'onesta panoramica delle caratteristiche di PostgreSQL, con riferimenti alle novità introdotte nelle ultime release.Tutto però è trattato senza approfondimenti, rimandati a pagine di cui viene fornita la URL abbreviata, senza dire quando si sta linkando il manuale di PostgreSQL, quando articoli tecnici.
Excellent overview of PostgreSQL and what’s new in PostgreSQL 10
Excellent overview of PostgreSQL and what’s new in PostgreSQL 10.Succinct - not padded out with bumpf you can find elsewhere.Covers the key concepts and things you need to know to get started and introductory information on other interesting topics that you can then delve into elsewhere.Recommended introduction to PostgreSQL and up-to-date.
Practical? More like just a reference book
Even as a reference book, this is just not what you'd want to read, I would have returned this book if I had the patience to do that.To give you a perspective, one of the things you'd use a lot in Postgres is inner join. I could not find any explanation of how that works anywhere in the book at all. That's just one example.
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