Bibliography
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 .
SQL Reference Books
[bowman01] The Practical SQL Handbook . Using SQL Variants. Fourth Edition. ISBN 0-201-70309-2. Addison-Wesley Professional. 2001.
[date97] A Guide to the SQL Standard . A user's guide to the standard database language SQL . Fourth Edition. ISBN 0-201-96426-0. Addison-Wesley. 1997.
[date04] An Introduction to Database Systems . Eighth Edition. ISBN 0-321-19784-4. Addison-Wesley. 2003.
[elma04] Fundamentals of Database Systems . Fourth Edition. ISBN 0-321-12226-7. Addison-Wesley. 2003.
[melt93] Understanding the New SQL . A complete guide. ISBN 1-55860-245-3. Morgan Kaufmann. 1993.
[ull88] Principles of Database and Knowledge-Base Systems . Classical Database Systems. Computer Science Press. 1988.
PostgreSQL-specific Documentation
[sim98] Enhancement of the ANSI SQL Implementation of PostgreSQL . Department of Information Systems, Vienna University of Technology. Vienna, Austria. November 29, 1998.
[yu95] The Postgres95. User Manual . University of California. Berkeley, California. Sept. 5, 1995.
[fong] The design and implementation of the POSTGRES query optimizer . University of California, Berkeley, Computer Science Department.
Proceedings and Articles
[ports12] " Serializable Snapshot Isolation in PostgreSQL ". VLDB Conference, August 2012.
[berenson95] " A Critique of ANSI SQL Isolation Levels ". ACM-SIGMOD Conference on Management of Data, June 1995.
[olson93] Partial indexing in POSTGRES: research project . UCB Engin T7.49.1993 O676. University of California. Berkeley, California. 1993.
[ong90] "A Unified Framework for Version Modeling Using Production Rules in a Database System". ERL Technical Memorandum M90/33 . University of California. Berkeley, California. April, 1990.
[rowe87] " The POSTGRES data model ". VLDB Conference, Sept. 1987.
[seshadri95] " Generalized Partial Indexes ". Eleventh International Conference on Data Engineering, 6-10 March 1995. Cat. No.95CH35724. IEEE Computer Society Press. Los Alamitos, California. 1995. 420-7.
[ston86] " The design of POSTGRES ". ACM-SIGMOD Conference on Management of Data, May 1986.
[ston87a] "The design of the POSTGRES rules system". IEEE Conference on Data Engineering, Feb. 1987.
[ston87b] " The design of the POSTGRES storage system ". VLDB Conference, Sept. 1987.
[ston89] " A commentary on the POSTGRES rules system ". SIGMOD Record 18(3) . Sept. 1989.
[ston89b] " The case for partial indexes ". SIGMOD Record 18(4) . Dec. 1989. 4-11.
[ston90a] " The implementation of POSTGRES ". Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering 2(1) . IEEE. March 1990.
[ston90b] " On Rules, Procedures, Caching and Views in Database Systems ". ACM-SIGMOD Conference on Management of Data, June 1990.