Acknowledgments

Thank you to our technical reviewer Vince Vielhaber. We appreciate his many hours spent poring over manuscripts exposing technical inaccuracies. His knowledge and expertise have been invaluable. We'd also like to thank Peter Eisentraut and Barry Stinson for reviewing the first edition of this book and Paul DuBois (of MySQL fame) for his guidance while we struggled for clarity in the first edition.

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).