PostgreSQL — resources
roadmap.sh: https://roadmap.sh/postgresql-dba
Books
- PostgreSQL: Up and Running (Regina Obe, Leo Hsu) — concise practical tour of administration and features.
- The Art of PostgreSQL (Dimitri Fontaine) — teaches how to push application logic into SQL the Postgres way.
- PostgreSQL 16 Administration Cookbook (Simon Riggs, Gianni Ciolli, et al.) — recipe-driven solutions for real DBA tasks.
- PostgreSQL High Performance (Gregory Smith) — deep dive into tuning, hardware, and benchmarking.
Courses / practice
- Official PostgreSQL Documentation — the authoritative reference for every feature and config setting.
- PostgreSQL Tutorial — example-driven lessons from basics to administration.
- Postgres Weekly — curated newsletter to stay current on releases and best practices.
- Use The Index, Luke — indexing and query performance fundamentals applicable to Postgres.