Re: Postgress and MYSQL

On Wed, 14 Jan 2004, Matt Davies wrote:

>
> Acceptance of PG could be greatly accelerated by more:
> 1. small projects using PG as a backend (as stated in previous thread post)
> 2. documenation coming from multiple sources. Don't ask me to explain why, but
> one seems to equate robustness, usability, etc... with the more titles one
> sees. If you go to Barnes and Noble's and look there for DB books you see the
> wall of red (Oracle books), black (M$oft), blue (MySQL). I simply point out
> that perception being as it is - PG is not there. I am trying to learn more and
> more about it to remedy my newcomer understanding of PG. Do not read this as if
> I am a newbie to DB's; I am not ignorant.
>

I have just gone to www.barnesandnoble.com , and, searched on
postgresql, and got 13 results - including the famous and
previously mentioned "Teach Yourself PostgreSQL in 21 Days", by Chris
Smith, published in December 2002!

:)

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Bret Busby
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