[ale] PostgreSQL DBA Guides

Jim Kinney jim.kinney at gmail.com
Mon Sep 19 13:10:10 EDT 2011


There's a "nutshell " guide that covers the major db tools, oracle, mysql,
postgresql, sql server, that make a good translation guide. Also look at
Programming Postgresql. Some of the main devs have good books.
On Sep 19, 2011 11:30 AM, "David Tomaschik" <david at systemoverlord.com>
wrote:
> As much as I hate to admit it, I've never done anything with
> PostgreSQL. Can anyone recommend a good resource for getting started?
> I'm rather thinking of some sort of rosetta stone from MySQL. I'm
> thinking of something like
> http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/PostgreSQL_for_Oracle_DBAs, but with a
> MySQL background instead of Oracle. I'm not so much concerned about
> the SQL syntax (I'm pretty decent with ANSI SQL) as I am with the DBA
> side of things, which is where they really diverge.
>
> I've looked at a few "PostgreSQL howtos" but they don't seem to get
> into a lot of depth. On the other hand, the pure PostgreSQL
> documentation is rather dry reading.
>
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