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The Art of PostgreSQL
The Art of PostgreSQL by Dimitri Fontaine is now available at https://theartofpostgresql.com. The book has several digital editions as well as a paperback edition.
As the new edition of the previously released Mastering PostgreSQL in Application Development, The Art of PostgreSQL updates content and comes with a new chapter about PostgreSQL extensions, such as hstore, pg_trgm, intarray, earthdistance, ip4r, and HyperLogLog, one of Craig Kerstiens' all time favorite extensions.
The Art of PostgreSQL will help you turn thousands of lines of code into simple queries.
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