Technical requirements
The knowledge required in this chapter is as follows:
- How to install binary packages on your Unix machine
- PostgreSQL basic terminology (from the previous chapter)
- Basic Unix command-line usage
- Basic SQL statements covered in this chapter, like
SELECT
The chapter examples can be run on the standalone Docker image, which you can find in the book’s GitHub repository: https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Learn-PostgreSQL-Second-Edition. For installation and usage of the Docker images available for this book, please refer to the instructions in Chapter 1, Introduction to PostgreSQL.