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PostgreSQL 14 Internals book – Part II

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This is really neat, I'm excited for parts III to V! Thanks for making a downloadable pdf available.

From the "For Whom Is This Book?"

> This book is for those who will not settle for a black-box approach when work- ing with a database. If you are eager to learn, prefer not to take expert advice for granted, and would like to figure out everything yourself, follow along.

The formatting is really great and makes reading and understanding much easier. The graphics are super helpful as well. I haven't read through it all yet, but I'm quite optimistic!

How is this different from https://www.interdb.jp/pg/index.html?

Does anyone know if they plan to release it in print? I find that when I stock up on ebooks I never read them but the heavy dead trees sitting on my desk seems to remind me more effectively

Same for me. I wish it weren't that way, but sadly it is.

Agreed. I love the fact that so many create ebooks for free and I'd love to support them with a print copy. Print on demand through Amazon or Lulu would be perfect and (I assume) fairly easy to set up.

I've had success in getting stuff printed at our local Fedex Kinkos (or Fedex Office maybe?)

I printed a few chapters of the MySQL docs recently: https://twitter.com/aarondfrancis/status/1545886078581751811.

Spiral bound and everything!

for those who missed the discussion on the first part: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32088316

Is there an epub format available for download? That would be strongly preferable especially since there doesn't seem to be a way to buy a physical copy.

Yay! Super excited for III - V as well. I know folks asked about a physical copy but going to echo the other comment about going to Kinkos and spiral bounding 'em!

offtopic, does anyone know if there are plans to somehow not use pgbouncer like may be in postgres 15?

Is there a MySQL version of this?

Yes, the O'Reilly book "Understanding MySQL Internals" [0]

[0] https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/understanding-mysql-int...

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