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. Judith Bowman , Sandra Emerson , and Marcy Darnovsky . 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. C. J. Date and Hugh Darwen . ISBN 0-201-96426-0. Addison-Wesley. 1997.

[date04] An Introduction to Database Systems . Eighth Edition. C. J. Date . ISBN 0-321-19784-4. Addison-Wesley. 2003.

[elma04] Fundamentals of Database Systems . Fourth Edition. Ramez Elmasri and Shamkant Navathe . ISBN 0-321-12226-7. Addison-Wesley. 2003.

[melt93] Understanding the New SQL . A complete guide. Jim Melton and Alan R. Simon . ISBN 1-55860-245-3. Morgan Kaufmann. 1993.

[ull88] Principles of Database and Knowledge-Base Systems . Classical Database Systems. Jeffrey D. Ullman . Volume 1. Computer Science Press. 1988.

PostgreSQL-specific Documentation

[sim98] Enhancement of the ANSI SQL Implementation of PostgreSQL . Stefan Simkovics . Department of Information Systems, Vienna University of Technology. Vienna, Austria. November 29, 1998.

[yu95] The Postgres95. User Manual . A. Yu and J. Chen . University of California. Berkeley, California. Sept. 5, 1995.

[fong] The design and implementation of the POSTGRES query optimizer . Zelaine Fong . University of California, Berkeley, Computer Science Department.

Proceedings and Articles

[ports12] " Serializable Snapshot Isolation in PostgreSQL ". D. Ports and K. Grittner . VLDB Conference, August 2012.

[berenson95] " A Critique of ANSI SQL Isolation Levels ". H. Berenson , P. Bernstein , J. Gray , J. Melton , E. O'Neil , and P. O'Neil . ACM-SIGMOD Conference on Management of Data, June 1995.

[olson93] Partial indexing in POSTGRES: research project . Nels Olson . 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". L. Ong and J. Goh . ERL Technical Memorandum M90/33 . University of California. Berkeley, California. April, 1990.

[rowe87] " The POSTGRES data model ". L. Rowe and M. Stonebraker . VLDB Conference, Sept. 1987.

[seshadri95] " Generalized Partial Indexes ". P. Seshadri and A. Swami . 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 ". M. Stonebraker and L. Rowe . ACM-SIGMOD Conference on Management of Data, May 1986.

[ston87a] "The design of the POSTGRES rules system". M. Stonebraker , E. Hanson , and C. H. Hong . IEEE Conference on Data Engineering, Feb. 1987.

[ston87b] " The design of the POSTGRES storage system ". M. Stonebraker . VLDB Conference, Sept. 1987.

[ston89] " A commentary on the POSTGRES rules system ". M. Stonebraker , M. Hearst , and S. Potamianos . SIGMOD Record 18(3) . Sept. 1989.

[ston89b] " The case for partial indexes ". M. Stonebraker . SIGMOD Record 18(4) . Dec. 1989. 4-11.

[ston90a] " The implementation of POSTGRES ". M. Stonebraker , L. A. Rowe , and M. Hirohama . Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering 2(1) . IEEE. March 1990.

[ston90b] " On Rules, Procedures, Caching and Views in Database Systems ". M. Stonebraker , A. Jhingran , J. Goh , and S. Potamianos . ACM-SIGMOD Conference on Management of Data, June 1990.