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Learning PostgreSQL 11

You're reading from   Learning PostgreSQL 11 A beginner's guide to building high-performance PostgreSQL database solutions

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2019
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ISBN-13 9781789535464
Length 556 pages
Edition 3rd Edition
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Andrey Volkov Andrey Volkov
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Christopher Travers Christopher Travers
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Table of Contents (18) Chapters Close

1. Relational Databases FREE CHAPTER 2. PostgreSQL in Action 3. PostgreSQL Basic Building Blocks 4. PostgreSQL Advanced Building Blocks 5. SQL Language 6. Advanced Query Writing 7. Server-Side Programming with PL/pgSQL 8. OLAP and Data Warehousing 9. Beyond Conventional Data Types 10. Transactions and Concurrency Control 11. PostgreSQL Security 12. The PostgreSQL Catalog 13. Optimizing Database Performance 14. Testing 15. Using PostgreSQL in Python Applications 16. Scalability 17. What's Next? 18. Other Books You May Enjoy

Questions

  1. Briefly describe the differences between a view, an updatable view, and a materialized view.
  2. List the index types supported by PostgreSQL.
  3. For range operators, such as > and <, which index type can be used?
  4. For the equality operator (=), which index type can be used?
  5. Which programming languages can be used to implement user-defined functions in PostgreSQL? Which languages are supported out of the box?
  6. What are function volatility classifications?
  7. What are the advantages of using trigger systems overrule systems in PostgreSQL?
  8. Suppose that a developer would like to write a function to perform sanity checks for data. Which trigger event is suitable for this task?
  9. Create a domain for positive integers.
  10. How can ENUM be used to reduce the number of joins when writing SQL code?
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