Re: ANY GOOD USER'S GUIDE ONLINE?? (with simple examples)

Hmm, personally I've found the documentation to be quite useful. There are
other sources of information that might help you. A couple of useful books
you might find more useful are PostgreSQL Essential Reference and PostgreSQL
Developers Handbook.

Good luck.

Tim

----- Original Message -----
From: "paul simdars" <psimdars@lisco.com>
To: <pgsql-general@postgresql.org>
Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2002 8:33 AM
Subject: [GENERAL] ANY GOOD USER'S GUIDE ONLINE?? (with simple examples)


> I am trying to get started with Postgres but it ain't easy.  The
> documentation, although it may be thorough and very exhaustive, doesn't
> have much of practical value in it.  I looked in a FAQ which came with
> the download -- again, not much useful there unless you wanted to write a
> dissertation.  Then I found a 'User's Guide' and thought, "Of course, I
> have been looking a 'documentation', which, when you think about it, has
> done a great job of docmenting, but a 'User's Guide', that's what I've
> been looking for!"
> Well, it wasn't a real user's guide.  I have been able to find useful
> items here and there but you have to dig through so much information that
> the frustration gets very high.
> Like, I am looking for how to insert a timestamp when a record has been
> updated.  I have found the data type timestamp defined and documented in
> documentation, FAQ and 'User's Guide', but nowhere is there an example of
> how one would actually insert a timestamp into a record.
> Yes, I do have the question of the timestamp, but No that is not my main
> question.  My main question is this "does there exist a real User's Guide
> in postgres-land, with actual examples of how to IMPLEMENT all this
> beautifully docmented material?"
> Sorry for putting you through this (if you made it this far), but I just
> needed to get this out of my system.
> Thanks,
> Paul
>
>
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