I haven't fully read it (yet), but based on a quick scan of a few chapters, it looks like a dense but well-written introduction.
Some additional resources I'd recommend if you're interested:
Designing Data-Intensive Applications is a fantastic place to start if you're interested in the intersection of databases & distributed systems:
The Architecture of Open-Source Applications book has a fewer chapters on databases:
https://aosabook.org/en/bdb.html
https://aosabook.org/en/hdfs.html
https://aosabook.org/en/nosql.html
There's some fantastic documentation on Postgres and its internals:
http://www.interdb.jp/pg/index.html