Acknowledgments

After months of hard work, this book has finally come true. This is a magical, emotional moment for us and we want to say thank you to all who have helped us to make this book happen.

Personally we want to thank Patricia G. Barnes who supported the development of the concept. She was the one who had the original idea for this book and got us started writing books. She worked on our first book (PostgreSQL Developer's Handbook) and we want to thank her for her work. Unfortunately she has left Sams. Pat, thanks for all you have done for us.

We were inherited by the most likable acquisitions editor we have ever dealt with. We want to say thank you to Shelley Johnston ("The Brain" all of us are fans of "Pinky and the Brain"), who has supported us during the entire process. She is the one who makes things work she is the key motivator in the entire team. We want to thank her for a personal and warm relationship that helps us to do our best. Let's hope that her son Alex (8 months old) will also be an acquisitions editor like her. Thanks, Shelley; we hope to meet some day.

Personal thanks goes to Vince Vielhaber, who has done a major part of the technical editing. Vince is one of the best PostgreSQL developers and provided a lot of experience as well as expertise.

We want to thank Erich Frühstück (see http://efeu.cybertec.at), who is the maintainer of the EFEU package. He is the person who taught us Unix and who showed us how to write proper programs, not just code. Erich is the best IT expert we have known in our careers. Thanks for all you have done for us. In a way you are the father of the technology that Cybertec (www.postgresql.at) can provide today.

Thanks to all our friends who have supported us during the past months and years.

Finally we want to say thank you to all those people involved in the process. Thanks to all of those who spent weeks and months to make this book come true. They are the people we will never meet personally, but they are also the people who play a major role. A book is not made only by authors. There are dozens of people involved who do all this wonderful work.