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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

[bowman01] The Practical SQL Handbook. Using SQL Variants. Fourth Edition. Judith Bowman, Sandra Emerson, and Marcy Darnovsky. 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. 0-201-96426-0. Addison-Wesley. 1997.

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

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

[melt93] Understanding the New SQL. A complete guide. Jim Melton and Alan R. Simon. 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.

[sqltr-19075-6] SQL Technical Report. Part 6: SQL support for JavaScript Object Notation (JSON). First Edition. 2017.

### 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

[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. San Jose, California. .

[hell18] “Looking Back at Postgres”. J. Hellerstein. Making Databases Work. 978-1-947487-19-2. Association for Computing Machinery and Morgan & Claypool. 2018.

[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.

[ports12] “Serializable Snapshot Isolation in PostgreSQL”. D. Ports and K. Grittner. VLDB Conference. August 2012. Istanbul, Turkey. .

[rowe87] “The POSTGRES™ data model”. L. Rowe and M. Stonebraker. VLDB Conference. Sept. 1987. Brighton, England. .

[seshadri95] “Generalized Partial Indexes”. P. Seshadri and A. Swami. Eleventh International Conference on Data Engineering. 6–10 March 1995. Taipeh, Taiwan. . 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. Washington, DC. .

[ston87a] “The design of the POSTGRES™ rules system”. M. Stonebraker, E. Hanson, and C. H. Hong. IEEE Conference on Data Engineering. Feb. 1987. Los Angeles, California. .

[ston87b] “The design of the POSTGRES™ storage system”. M. Stonebraker. VLDB Conference. Sept. 1987. Brighton, England. .

[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. .

[ston92] “ An overview of the Sequoia 2000 project ”. M. Stonebraker. Digest of Papers COMPCON Spring 1992. 1992. 383–388.

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