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I couldn't dislike the marketing of "The Art of PostgreSQL" more ... A website that looks like a SaaS. Hugely overpriced paperback version. No book summary a

I couldn't dislike the marketing of "The Art of PostgreSQL" more ... A website that looks like a SaaS. Hugely overpriced paperback version. No book summary available. A free chapter banner that doesn't link anywhere. No possibility to buy on different stores.

mosselman 6y ago
I bought it through work and it is very missable to be honest. Very shallow.
taffit 6y ago
Fully agree with you. I bought it, just to discover, that it is somehow just a simple introduction to SQL. Also what I found irritating: Nowhere on the marketing page of the book I found a reference to the PostgreSQL-version for which it was written or applicable. Most probably because it is only very loosely coupled with PostgreSQL.
tarasmatsyk 6y ago
I found the book apprisal somewhere on Reddit in "advanced books on postgres". I expected to find postgres optimization and at least a few pages on how to scale it (or where to look for solutions), instead I was dissapointed. While it's still a very decent book on SQL syntaxes and advanced queries (I bet even 10y+ PostgreSQL users don't know half of what PostgreSQL can do) here is why I don't recommend it: - poorly written instructions on how to set up Postgres 11 with all those crazy extensions - No epub version (it's simply broken and nobody responds on my emails, instead I get a reminder to continue my learning course which has 2 links, a short intro and a link to the book. I've stopped at 50% just because the book was downloaded from another browser and now I get these irritating emails) - There is a lot of Python in the book, I want to learn SQL and PostgreSQL, not Python or any other sort of languages. I use Py professionally but it does not mean I want it to be tied to SQL. - There are unrelated interviews, for instance, a guy who worked on Django ORMs (how is this related to my SQL knowledge) Don't get me wrong, don't treat this comment as a rant about how bad the book is, the SQL tricks are really awesome there, however if you think about buying this book, go for 49$ version and expect to have some pain to setup everything. I am like 50/50 on asking for refund

mosselman 6y ago

I bought it through work and it is very missable to be honest. Very shallow.

taffit 6y ago

Fully agree with you. I bought it, just to discover, that it is somehow just a simple introduction to SQL. Also what I found irritating: Nowhere on the marketing page of the book I found a reference to the PostgreSQL-version for which it was written or applicable. Most probably because it is only very loosely coupled with PostgreSQL.

tarasmatsyk 6y ago

I found the book apprisal somewhere on Reddit in "advanced books on postgres". I expected to find postgres optimization and at least a few pages on how to scale it (or where to look for solutions), instead I was dissapointed. While it's still a very decent book on SQL syntaxes and advanced queries (I bet even 10y+ PostgreSQL users don't know half of what PostgreSQL can do) here is why I don't recommend it: - poorly written instructions on how to set up Postgres 11 with all those crazy extensions - No epub version (it's simply broken and nobody responds on my emails, instead I get a reminder to continue my learning course which has 2 links, a short intro and a link to the book. I've stopped at 50% just because the book was downloaded from another browser and now I get these irritating emails) - There is a lot of Python in the book, I want to learn SQL and PostgreSQL, not Python or any other sort of languages. I use Py professionally but it does not mean I want it to be tied to SQL. - There are unrelated interviews, for instance, a guy who worked on Django ORMs (how is this related to my SQL knowledge) Don't get me wrong, don't treat this comment as a rant about how bad the book is, the SQL tricks are really awesome there, however if you think about buying this book, go for 49$ version and expect to have some pain to setup everything. I am like 50/50 on asking for refund