Selected references and readings for SQL and PostgreSQL.
Some white papers and technical reports from the original Postgres development team are available at the University of California, Berkeley, Computer Science Department web site
Judith Bowman, Sandra Emerson, and Marcy Darnovsky, The Practical SQL Handbook: Using Structured Query Language, Third Edition, Addison-Wesley, ISBN 0-201-44787-8, 1996.
C. J. Date and Hugh Darwen, A Guide to the SQL Standard: A user's guide to the standard database language SQL, Fourth Edition, Addison-Wesley, ISBN 0-201-96426-0, 1997.
Jim Melton and Alan R. Simon, Understanding the New SQL: A complete guide, Morgan Kaufmann, ISBN 1-55860-245-3, 1993.
Jeffrey D. Ullman, Principles of Database and Knowledge: Base Systems, Volume 1, Computer Science Press, 1988.
The PostgreSQL Administrator's Guide, Edited by Thomas Lockhart, The PostgreSQL Global Development Group, 2001-04-13.
The PostgreSQL Developer's Guide, Edited by Thomas Lockhart, The PostgreSQL Global Development Group, 2001-04-13.
The PostgreSQL Programmer's Guide, Edited by Thomas Lockhart, The PostgreSQL Global Development Group, 2001-04-13.
The PostgreSQL Tutorial Introduction, Edited by Thomas Lockhart, The PostgreSQL Global Development Group, 2001-04-13.
The PostgreSQL User's Guide, Edited by Thomas Lockhart, The PostgreSQL Global Development Group, 2001-04-13.
Stefan Simkovics, Enhancement of the ANSI SQL Implementation of PostgreSQL, Department of Information Systems, Vienna University of Technology, November 29, 1998.
Discusses SQL history and syntax, and describes the addition of INTERSECT and EXCEPT constructs into PostgreSQL. Prepared as a Master's Thesis with the support of O. Univ. Prof. Dr. Georg Gottlob and Univ. Ass. Mag. Katrin Seyr at Vienna University of Technology.
A. Yu and J. Chen, The POSTGRES Group, The Postgres95 User Manual, University of California, Sept. 5, 1995.
Nels Olson, Partial indexing in POSTGRES: research project, University of California, UCB Engin T7.49.1993 O676, 1993.
L. Ong and J. Goh, "A Unified Framework for Version Modeling Using Production Rules in a Database System", ERL Technical Memorandum M90/33, University of California, April, 1990.
P. Seshadri and A. Swami, "Generalized Partial Indexes ", Proc. Eleventh International Conference on Data Engineering, 6-10 March 1995, IEEE Computer Society Press, Cat. No.95CH35724, 1995, p. 420-7.
M. Stonebraker and L. Rowe, "The Design of Postgres", Proc. ACM-SIGMOD Conference on Management of Data, May 1986.
M. Stonebraker, E. Hanson, and C. H. Hong, "The Design of the Postgres Rules System", Proc. IEEE Conference on Data Engineering, Feb. 1987.
M. Stonebraker, M. Hearst, and S. Potamianos, "A Commentary on the Postgres Rules System", SIGMOD Record 18(3), Sept. 1989.
M. Stonebraker, "The case for partial indexes (DBMS)", SIGMOD Record 18(4), Dec. 1989, p. 4-11.
M. Stonebraker, L. A. Rowe, and M. Hirohama, "The Implementation of Postgres", Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering 2(1), IEEE, March 1990.