The thing that's "wrong" with any of the books that are available is that they have considerable portions about the whole variety of language "bindings" (e.g. - Perl, Python, C, C++, ...) which bulk up the book when it's really only likely that you'd need a reference on one or two of the languages.
I would have loved to see twice or three times as much in the NR book on performance tuning, and at least twice as much discussion about the implications of MVCC.
Christopher, of all the topics that we covered, I enjoyed writing the performance chapter the most. In my daytime job, I work on languages and development tools and a lot of what I do is performance and tuning work.
I'd love to hear suggestions on what you would like to see in the second edition. I've been trying to talk some of the publishers into letting us do an "Advanced PostgreSQL Performance Tuning" book. Not much luck yet - if our first book does really well, I think we'll be able to get the publishers a bit more interested in that sort of thing.
The language bindings chapters did get a bit tedious to write, but it was fun to work on the PL/pgSQL and ecpg chapters - it's been difficult to find good information on either of those (until now).
I hope you enjoy the rest of the book.
-- Korry
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