Re: New Database Engine Design

In article <j7y89.5208$HY3.1437080_at_newsc.telia.net>, Tibor Karaszi <no_at_spam.com> wrote:
> You can get some ideas on transaction handling (assuming you intend to add
> such support) in 'Transaction Processing: Concepts and Techniques" by Jim
> Gray and Andreas Reuter. (I don't have the book here, apologies if
> incorrectly named.)

Indeed. And for completenes here is a small blurp from the Developers FAQ of PostgreSQL at

  http://developer.postgresql.org/readtext.php?src/FAQ/FAQ_DEV.html+Developers-FAQ

| 1.6) What books are good for developers?
|
| I have four good books, An Introduction to Database Systems, by C.J. Date,
| Addison, Wesley, A Guide to the SQL Standard, by C.J. Date, et. al,
| Addison, Wesley, Fundamentals of Database Systems, by Elmasri and Navathe,
| and Transaction Processing, by Jim Gray, Morgan, Kaufmann
| 
| There is also a database performance site, with a handbook on-line written
| by Jim Gray at http://www.benchmarkresources.com.

Good luck, Received on Tue Aug 20 2002 - 23:56:32 CEST