Are there any good books coming out that cover Postgres 9.4? I know the docs are okay but I want something with more of a narrative structure as my history with Postgres is spotty. The only one I've found so far is O'Reilly's "PostgreSQL: Up and Running, 2nd Edition" coming out this month but would prefer a personal rec.
I have O'Reilly's "PostgreSQL: Up and Running, 2nd Edition" (You can buy the ebook already) and it's mostly about setting it up and administering postgres and a look at the tools around postgres. It's not a book that goes in depth on actually on how to write SQL for postgres, although it has a secton on this, or develop applications with postgres. It's more of an ops book. Anyway, I like it because coming from MySQL I was unfamiliar with how to set up and use postgres and this book set me straight.
Thanks to Safari, I'm now several chapters into the book and it's perfect for me - thanks :) It was the ops side of things that was the biggest sticking point for me, although it seems like it'll dig into the JSONB stuff later on too.
percept is winding me up ;-) Cooper Press is my company and I wrote a book called Beginning Ruby many moons ago. I wrote the first edition while learning the details of Ruby myself and I'd consider writing a Postgres book under similar circumstances if only I had the time! ;-)
