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Learn PostgreSQL

You're reading from   Learn PostgreSQL Build and manage high-performance database solutions using PostgreSQL 12 and 13

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781838985288
Length 650 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Enrico Pirozzi Enrico Pirozzi
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Luca Ferrari Luca Ferrari
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Table of Contents (27) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: Getting Started
2. Introduction to PostgreSQL FREE CHAPTER 3. Getting to Know Your Cluster 4. Managing Users and Connections 5. Section 2: Interacting with the Database
6. Basic Statements 7. Advanced Statements 8. Window Functions 9. Server-Side Programming 10. Triggers and Rules 11. Partitioning 12. Section 3: Administering the Cluster
13. Users, Roles, and Database Security 14. Transactions, MVCC, WALs, and Checkpoints 15. Extending the Database - the Extension Ecosystem 16. Indexes and Performance Optimization 17. Logging and Auditing 18. Backup and Restore 19. Configuration and Monitoring 20. Section 4: Replication
21. Physical Replication 22. Logical Replication 23. Section 5: The PostegreSQL Ecosystem
24. Useful Tools and Extensions 25. Toward PostgreSQL 13 26. Other Books You May Enjoy

Installing extensions

Usually, the workflow for getting an extension up and running involves a few steps. First, you need to find out which extension to use, which version, and the compatibility with your cluster. Once you have found out the extension you need, you have to install it in the cluster.

Installing it in the cluster really means deploying it in the cluster, that is, moving all the extension-related files and libraries into the shared directory of the cluster so that PostgreSQL can seek the code required to run the extension.

Lastly, you need to create the extension in every single database that needs it. Creating an extension is like enabling the usage of the extension within a specific database.

In order to demonstrate the usage of an extension, we will install Orafce, the Oracle compatibility functions extension. Describing the whole extension is not the aim of this section, so let's just say that this extension provides a set of functions, data types, and other stuff...

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