I have this on my desk right now - it's been extremely helpful in scaling a large database and I'd recommend it to those who don't have any experience with indexing and partitioning as well (it explains them quite clearly). It goes into lots of system settings for tuning as well.
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They ink to PostgreSQL 9.0 High Performance (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/184951030X/), which I agree is a great book if you're a sysadmin supporting PostgreSQL.
I have this on my desk right now - it's been extremely helpful in scaling a large database and I'd recommend it to those who don't have any experience with indexing and partitioning as well (it explains them quite clearly). It goes into lots of system settings for tuning as well.
what's up w the third book link tho? some crappy book by a guy named CJ
C. J. Date is a very well known technical writer. He has written extensively about SQL and relational theory.