Received: from golem.fourpalms.org (fourpalms.org [64.3.68.148]) by postgresql.org (8.11.3/8.11.4) with ESMTP id f844wT763423 for ; Tue, 4 Sep 2001 00:58:30 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from lockhart@fourpalms.org) Received: from fourpalms.org (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by golem.fourpalms.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1C0C0FEC5; Tue, 4 Sep 2001 04:58:28 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <3B945F74.E6F4787F@fourpalms.org> Date: Tue, 04 Sep 2001 04:58:28 +0000 From: Thomas Lockhart Reply-To: lockhart@fourpalms.org Organization: Yes X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.17-21mdksmp i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Peter Eisentraut Cc: pgsql-docs@postgresql.org Subject: Re: Listing SQL books in the documentation References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archive-Number: 200109/10 X-Sequence-Number: 942 > Comments? One reason, perhaps the most important, we mentioned books at all was to get a common set of reference material for the developers. Also, I've found some books to be better "references" than others, though this doesn't necessarily argue for their inclusion in a "suggested list" in the main docs. As Mr. Lane points out, we should have the info somewhere. OK with me if we want to move it to the web site... btw, the references are old, but has anyone run across a *good* new book covering SQL99 explicitly? It may be that a 5 year accumulation of books after SQL92 was published is sufficient to do the topic justice, and newer books covering the same standard do not cover any new ground. - Thomas