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The Barnes & Noble ReviewThe PostgreSQL open source database has undergone a renaissance in the past few years, as open source developers have discovered both its rich feature set and its significantly enhanced performance. Now, in PostgreSQL Developer's Handbook, the partners of one of the world's leading PostgreSQL consultancies give experienced database pros the practical insight they need to make the most of PostgreSQL in a wide range of environments and applications.
Ewald Geschwinde and Hans-Juergen Schoenig begin with an overview of PostgreSQL: its roots, history, and current capabilities, and what you need to know before you install and use it. Next, they focus on database development with PL/pgSQL, PostgreSQL's relatively rich SQL dialect. There's a full chapter on PostgreSQL's transaction support -- one key reason the software has found a home in some surprisingly high-end applications.
The authors next move on to PostgreSQL server administration: classic DBA tasks, backup and recovery, and performance tuning. Finally, in Part IV, they focus on extending PostgreSQL via its robust programming interfaces, and integrating PostgreSQL with other open source technologies. Systematic and practical, PostgreSQL Developer's Handbook fully reflects the authors' extensive experience training PostgreSQL developers and implementing high-end PostgreSQL solutions. (Bill Camarda)
Bill Camarda is a consultant, writer, and web/multimedia content developer with nearly 20 years' experience in helping technology companies deploy and market advanced software, computing, and networking products and services. He served for nearly ten years as vice president of a New Jerseybased marketing company, where he supervised a wide range of graphics and web design projects. His 15 books include Special Edition Using Word 2000 and Upgrading & Fixing Networks For Dummies®, Second Edition.
Overview
PostgreSQL is an object-relational database server that is widely considered to be the world¿s most advanced open-source database system. It is ANSI SQL-compatible, and it offers powerful features to enable more complex software design than would be possible with relational databases that are not object-oriented. PostgreSQL is extremely modular, it supports a large number of datatypes, and programming interfaces for PostgreSQL are available for all important programming ...