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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

The Practical SQL Handbook. Using SQL Variants. Judith Bowman, Sandra Emerson, Marcy Darnovsky. 2001. ISBN 0-201-70309-2.

A Guide to the SQL Standard. A user's guide to the standard database language SQL. C. J. Date, Hugh Darwen. 1997. ISBN 0-201-96426-0.

An Introduction to Database Systems. C. J. Date. 2003. ISBN 0-321-19784-4.

Fundamentals of Database Systems. Ramez Elmasri, Shamkant Navathe. 2003. ISBN 0-321-12226-7.

Understanding the New SQL. A complete guide. Jim Melton, Alan R. Simon. 1993. ISBN 1-55860-245-3.

Principles of Database and Knowledge-Base Systems. Classical Database Systems. Jeffrey D. Ullman. 1988.

SQL Technical Report. Part 6: SQL support for JavaScript Object Notation (JSON). 2017.

PostgreSQL-specific Documentation

Enhancement of the ANSI SQL Implementation of PostgreSQL. Stefan Simkovics. November 29, 1998.

The Postgres95 User Manual. A. Yu, J. Chen. Sept. 5, 1995.

The design and implementation of the POSTGRES query optimizer. Zelaine Fong.

Proceedings and Articles

H. Berenson, P. Bernstein, J. Gray, J. Melton, E. O'Neil, P. O'Neil.

J. Hellerstein.

Partial indexing in POSTGRES: research project. Nels Olson. 1993.

L. Ong, J. Goh.

D. Ports, K. Grittner.

L. Rowe, M. Stonebraker.

P. Seshadri, A. Swami. 1995.

M. Stonebraker, L. Rowe.

M. Stonebraker, E. Hanson, C. H. Hong.

M. Stonebraker.

M. Stonebraker, M. Hearst, S. Potamianos.

M. Stonebraker.

M. Stonebraker, L. A. Rowe, M. Hirohama.

M. Stonebraker, A. Jhingran, J. Goh, S. Potamianos.

M. Stonebraker.