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

The PostgreSQL web site has lots of resources, if you
look around.  On this page, you will seen under
"General Info" links to the full text of two books
that are sure to help you; you will also see a link to
"Non-FAQ Documentation" which has lots of other useful
resources.

http://www.us.postgresql.org/users-lounge/index.html

--- paul simdars <psimdars@lisco.com> wrote:
> 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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