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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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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
Introduction to PostgreSQL

PostgreSQL is a well-known open-source relational database, and its motto states what the project intends to be: the most advanced open-source database in the world.

The main qualities that attract masses of new users every year and keep current users enthusiastic about their projects are its rock-solid stability, scalability, and safeness, as well as the features that an enterprise-level database management system provides.

But PostgreSQL is not just a database; it has grown to be a whole ecosystem of extensions, tools, and languages tied together by communities spread around the world.

PostgreSQL is an open-source project and is fully developed in the open-source world. That means that there is no single entity in charge of the project and the result is that PostgreSQL is not a commercial product. In other words, PostgreSQL belongs to everyone, and...

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Learn PostgreSQL
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