Acknowledgments

Thank you to our technical reviewers, Peter Eisentraut and Barry Stinson, and to Paul DuBois for his developmental reviewing. We appreciate their many hours spent poring through manuscripts exposing technical inaccuracies and poor grammar. Their knowledge and expertise have been invaluable.

Thank you to the staff at New Riders, especially Chris Zahn, Elise Walter, and Stephanie Wall for keeping this project manageable, on time, and on course. The help and support they have provided has made this book possible.

We would especially like to thank the developers of PostgreSQL for the years of development spent producing an excellent database. Without their devotion to the project, it wouldn't have evolved into the masterpiece we all know today.

Most of the books that we read are dedicated to various household members for the long hours devoted to their writing project rather than to family life. Instead, we have enjoyed the long hours of R&D spent together, interspersed with screaming (during breaks, on the Roller Coasters at King's Dominion ”not at each other).