PostgreSQL Development Essentials - Learn Database Programming for Web & App Development | SQL Query Optimization & Data Management Guide

While I'm not going to completely disagree with PK's review, I'm also going to point out that it doesn't know the story of this book. I'm one of the technical reviewers listed in the foreword of the book. There are three things one needs to know about this specific book. First, there are two authors instead of one because the first author just disappeared from Earth after writing a few chapters from the outline. I was asked to complete the book, but for reasons unknown (I suspect "cost of labor"), someone else did it instead. Fine, I'm not holding a grudge over that at all; anyone can self-publish if they want. Second, the critique of grammar in the book is fair, but oh man if you had seen the first drafts... The grammatical editors at Pakt are truly amazing. Unfortunately, they sometimes also change the meaning of the sentences while they're fixing the original grammar. Seriously, the grammatical editors rewrote an easy 80% of this book. And that brings me to the third point - the process. The way this works is: the author writes up a draft, the draft goes to the reviewers, the reviewers add comments, the author integrates those comments at their discretion, then that integrated result goes to the publisher's editors to clean up and arrange. So the reviewers listed in the front of the book, like me, can theoretically be amazing (not that I'm necessarily "amazing", but I do have sufficient competence to manage these simple examples). That doesn't mean their input is necessarily getting to the published book unless 1) the author integrates the feedback *and* 2) the editors later don't mangle things to make the examples appear incorrect.I can assure anyone who's reading this that the examples *all* were verified as working properly and fit the way I interpreted the author when I handed my notes back. Don't send all of the names from the book down with the ship; some of us only got paid in the form of a free book for our time (which was significant on this one), and had no control of the final content. :D