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> If you want to use any part of this document and/or any figure, please contact me. If you work at Amazon, you cannot use and refer to this document because of the copyright violation issues. This is an interesting inclusion, would they be referring to copies of this book being sold on Amazon? Or usage in their documentation? I'm genuinely curious what the issue is with them...
There seems to be a demand for developers who know the internals of Postgres to evolve and customize it given that it is being used, at different levels of abstraction/layers, by basically all cloud providers (AWS, MS, Google, etc) and by some DB SaaS. BTW, that would be a cool job to have...
A ton of companies are building on top of PostgreSQL — Yugabyte, Supabase, EdgeDB and Neon.
Great to see these sorts of things, Postgres has been amazing and glad people realise it.
where can I buy it? Looks great
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> The translation is currently in progress. Right now, only Part I is available. Other parts will follow soon. Stay tuned!
As in it's available in another language already?
linked from their own website: https://postgrespro.ru/education/books/internals
that is awesome, thank you for posting it I would love to know where to send bugs (a convenient place may be a repo in their GH org ( https://github.com/postgrespro ), to potentially avoid duplicate reports)
I'll nudge our team about an open mirror, but meanwhile you can contact us at edu@postgrespro.ru. Bug reports on what's already out there will be very helpful to further improve both this part and what is yet to come.
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A ton of companies are building on top of PostgreSQL — Yugabyte, Supabase, EdgeDB and Neon.
Hopefully pushing back upstream. I don't really care what they do, as long as they push back their usually awesome changes upstream. Great to see these sorts of things, Postgres has been amazing and glad people realise it.
I assume for the common Postgres core changes everyone is already incentivised to contribute changes back upstream - the companies are banking on Postgres popularity can need it to have an excellent reputation even outside of their specific customised offering.
Are there resources of similar quality available for MySQL / MariaDB internals ?
There seems to be a demand for developers who know the internals of Postgres to evolve and customize it given that it is being used, at different levels of abstraction/layers, by basically all cloud providers (AWS, MS, Google, etc) and by some DB SaaS. BTW, that would be a cool job to have...