[HN Gopher] The Internals of PostgreSQL
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       The Internals of PostgreSQL
        
       Author : hjnkk
       Score  : 197 points
       Date   : 2022-02-17 13:22 UTC (9 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (www.interdb.jp)
 (TXT) w3m dump (www.interdb.jp)
        
       | throwamon wrote:
       | This may be a good place to ask: Are there any books that are
       | something like "the SICP/HtDP of databases", in the sense of
       | teaching fundamentals in a principled, mind-expanding way?
       | Something that doesn't focus so much on internals, but on how to
       | design and deal with data models and databases.
        
         | fmeyer wrote:
         | Silberschatz's Database System Concepts is a good starting
         | point
        
         | comonoid wrote:
         | Alex Petrov's "Database Internals", perhaps. I know nothing
         | better... https://www.databass.dev/
        
       | me_me_mu_mu wrote:
       | Every time this gets posted I go there and learn 1 new thing.
       | 
       | At this rate, I think in a few years I will have learned so much.
        
       | erhserhdfd wrote:
       | "If you work at Amazon, you cannot use and refer to this document
       | because of the copyright violation issues." --> This is really
       | interesting. Does anyone know the background on this? Has anyone
       | else seen this someplace else?
        
         | billiam wrote:
         | sounds like he is pretty pissed at Amazon selling counterfeit
         | versions of some of his 7 books. And he should be.
        
         | collegeburner wrote:
         | Maybe to do with amazon implementing postgres compatibility in
         | aurora? Reading this could leave an argument that it's not a
         | "clean-room" implementation and is a license violation.
        
           | paulryanrogers wrote:
           | Pg's license is like BSD/MIT. So long as they provide
           | attribution why would they bother trying to do a clean room
           | reimplementation?
        
             | alberth wrote:
             | You might be confusing what a license agreement is vs what
             | copyright assignment is.
        
               | detaro wrote:
               | doesn't sound like it.
        
           | jtc331 wrote:
           | Aurora isn't a reimplementation anyway, it's a fork with the
           | storage layer replaced.
        
       | cosmical65 wrote:
       | Would be awesome to have an EPUB version of this. The scaling on
       | the website is really weird for me.
        
         | almost wrote:
         | I would love this as well. Finding it really hard to read with
         | everything so wide. But the book does look good!
        
       | password4321 wrote:
       | As recommended by multiple users last week:
       | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30279986#30281910
       | 
       | > _I cannot recommendhttps://www.interdb.jp/pg/ enough, an
       | excellent text with lots of details_
        
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