About the Technical Reviewers

These reviewers contributed their considerable hands-on expertise to the entire development process for PostgreSQL . As the book was being written, these dedicated professionals reviewed all the material for technical content, organization, and flow. Their feedback was critical to ensuring that PostgreSQL fits our reader's need for the highest-quality technical information.

Barry Stinson graduated from Louisiana State University in 1995 with a Master's Degree in Music Composition. During his tenure there, he was fortunate enough to help design the Digital Arts studio with Dr. Stephen David Beck. Designing a full-fledged music and graphic-arts digital studio afforded him exposure to a diverse set of unique computing systems ”particularly those from NeXT, SGI, and Apple.

It was during this time that he discovered Linux, and subsequently PostgreSQL, both of which were still in an early stage of development.

After graduation, Barry set up his own consulting company, Silicon Consulting, which is based in Lafayette, LA. Over the years , he has worked as a consultant for many companies throughout southern Louisiana.

Increasingly, much of the work that Barry has done over the years has centered on databases. In the time from his original exposure to Postgre95 ”to its present form as PostgreSQL ”an amazing amount of development has taken place on open -source database systems.

The rise of high-quality and open-sourced computing systems that have taken place recently has produced a renaissance in the high-tech industry. However, according to his girlfriend Pamela, his continued insistence to rely on renegade operating systems, such as Linux, has only served to strengthen the unruly aspects already present in his personality. Barry is the author of New Riders PostgreSQL Essential Reference .

Peter Eisentraut , from Dresden, Germany, became involved with PostgreSQL development in 1999 when he needed to scratch the proverbial itch. (The result is the tab-completion in the psql client.) He has since worked in many areas of the PostgreSQL code, reviewed several PostgreSQL books, and contributed to other open-source projects. In his spare time he likes to study human languages and plans to ride his bicycle to the places where those languages are spoken.