[TriLUG] Learning PostgreSQL

Joseph Tate jtate at dragonstrider.com
Thu Apr 3 15:16:32 EST 2003


Well, the Postgres documentation is really quite good.  Goto 
http://www.postgresql.org/docs and click the version that you've got.  
Then run through the PostgreSQL tutorial, then the User's guide, then 
the Administrator's guide.  That's how I learned it.

Joseph

Roy Vestal wrote:

>Okey, so I'm getting an overwhelming sound to learn Postgres, as well as
>some saying learn Oracle. How should a non-xDB admin person start? Any
>suggestions on learning the basics?
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>>Postgres.
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>>MySQL is still lacking way too many features that are crucial to
>>understand to be a good DBA.
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>>On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 11:06:52AM -0500, Roy Vestal wrote:
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>>>Here's a question: to learn the basics of db admin, should I use MySQL,
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>or
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>>>Posgres?
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