This document summarizes a book titled "PostgreSQL Server Programming Second Edition" which teaches how to extend PostgreSQL using server-side programming to create, test, debug, and optimize user-defined functions in various programming languages. It includes biographies of some of the book reviewers which provide details on their backgrounds and experiences with PostgreSQL.

1. PostgreSQL Server
Programming
Second Edition
Extend PostgreSQL using PostgreSQL server
programming to create, test, debug, and optimize
a range of user-defined functions in your favorite
programming language
Usama Dar
Hannu Krosing
Jim Mlodgenski
Kirk Roybal
BIRMINGHAM - MUMBAI

2. PostgreSQL Server Programming
Second Edition
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First published: June 2013
Second edition: February 2015
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3. Credits
Authors
Usama Dar
Hannu Krosing
Jim Mlodgenski
Kirk Roybal
Reviewers
Stephen Frost
Rick van Hattem
Vibhor Kumar
Jeff Lawson
Mariano Reingart
Julien Tachoires
Commissioning Editor
Usha Iyer
Acquisition Editors
Antony Lowe
Meeta Rajani
Sam Wood
Content Development Editor
Adrian Raposo
Technical Editors
Mrunmayee Patil
Chinmay Puranik
Copy Editors
Dipti Kapadia
Aarti Saldanha
Project Coordinator
Kinjal Bari
Proofreaders
Maria Gould
Linda Morris
Indexer
Monica Ajmera Mehta
Production Coordinator
Nitesh Thakur
Cover Work
Nitesh Thakur

4. Vibhor Kumar is a principal system architect at EnterpriseDB who specializes in
assisting Fortune 100 companies to deploy, manage, and optimize Postgres databases.
He joined EnterpriseDB in 2008 to work with Postgres after several years of working
with Oracle systems. He has worked in team leadership roles at IBM Global Services
and BMC Software as well as an Oracle database administrator at CMC Ltd. for
several years. He has developed expertise in Oracle, DB2, and MongoDB and holds
certifications in them. He has experience working with MS SQL Server, MySQL,
and data warehousing. He holds a bachelor's degree in computer science from the
University of Lucknow and a master's degree in computer science from the Army
Institute of Management, Kolkata. He is a certified PostgreSQL trainer and holds a
professional certification in Postgres Plus Advanced Server from EnterpriseDB.
Jeff Lawson has been a fan and user of PostgreSQL since the time he discovered
it in 2001. Over the years, he has also developed and deployed applications for
IBM DB2, Oracle, MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server, Sybase, and others, but he always
prefers PostgreSQL for its balance of features and openness. Much of his experience
involves developing for Internet-facing websites/projects that require highly scalable
databases with high availability or with provisions for disaster recovery.
He currently works as the director of software development for FlightAware, which
is an airplane-tracking website that uses PostgreSQL and other open source software
to store and analyze the positions of the thousands of flights that are operated
worldwide every day. He has extensive experience in software architecture, data
security, and network protocol design from the software engineering positions he
has held at Univa / United Devices, Microsoft, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
and WolfeTech. He is a founder of distributed.net, which pioneered distributed
computing in the 1990s, and he continues to serve as the chief of operations and
as a member of the board there. He earned a BSc degree in computer science from
Harvey Mudd College.
He is fond of cattle, holds an FAA private pilot certificate, and owns an airplane
based in Houston, Texas.

5. Mariano Reingart lives in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and is a specialist in
the software development of applications and libraries (web services, PDF,
GUI, replication, and so on) with more than 10 years of experience. Currently,
he is the PostgreSQL regional contact for Argentina and a Python Software
Foundation member.
He is a major contributor to the web2py Python web framework, and now he's
working on the wxWidgets multiplatform GUI toolkit (specifically in the Qt port
and Android mobile areas). Also, he has contributed to more than a dozen open
source projects, including an interface for Free Electronic Invoice web services
(PyAfipWs) and Pythonic replication for PostgreSQL (PyReplica).
He has a bachelor's degree in computer systems analysis, and currently, he's a
master's candidate for the MSc in free software degree at the Open University
of Catalonia.
He works on his own funded entrepreneurial venture formed by an open group
of independent professionals, dedicated to software development, training, and
technical support, focusing on open source tools (GNU/Linux, Python, PostgreSQL,
and web2py/wxPython).
He has worked for local Python-based companies in large business applications
(ERP, SCM, and CRM) and mission critical systems (election counting, electronic
voting, 911 emergency events support). He has contributed to books such as
web2py Enterprise Web Framework, Third Edition, and web2py Application Development
Cookbook, Packt Publishing, and several Spanish translations of the PostgreSQL
official documentation.
His full resume is available at http://reingart.blogspot.com/p/resume.html.
Julien Tachoires is a PostgreSQL specialist, who works as consultant for the
French PostgreSQL company Dalibo. He is the main developer of pg_activity,
a top-end software dedicated to follow the PostgreSQL incoming traffic in real
time, which is written in Python.
I want to thank my employer Dalibo; my wife, Camille; and my
son, Arthur.

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