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!
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
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.
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!
Facebook pays taxes which helps American soldiers to kill innocent civilians. Many Israeli companies pay taxes to help criminal Israeli regime to kill innocent Palestinian civilians. Why are you so picky about Russian regime?
I didn't discuss money and profit, neither I discussed pgpro employees.
There is difference between people and organizations, though any organization is created by people.
The question I raised was about the global Postgres community and PostgresPro the company – is it ok for the community to deal with this company or not.
My answer is definitely it's not ok. At the same time, we should support try to keep with people and support them, even if they still work in PostgresPro for living.
Moreover, I think dealing the founders – Oleg, Teodor, etc – is also ok. But not with the company, brand, and its branded events like pgconf.ru.
Agreed. It's clear that PostgresPro is profiting from this, and they have not taken a stance on Russia's war in Ukraine (I imagine they couldn't, given how much money they are to make in the now isolated Russian market).
And if I've observed correctly, they've also quietly moved their supposed company headquarters to Gibraltar, and removed any clear mentions of the above cited Russian government contracts from their website.
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!