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Getting to Know Your Cluster
To be a proficient user and administrator of a PostgreSQL cluster, you first must know and understand how PostgreSQL works. A database system is a very complex beast, and PostgreSQL, being an enterprise-level Database Management System (DBMS), is in no way a simple software system. However, thanks to very good design and implementation, once you understand the basic concepts and terminology of PostgreSQL, things will quickly become comprehensive and clear.
This chapter will continue from the foundation of the previous chapter and introduce you to some other PostgreSQL terminology and concepts, as well as teaching you how to interact with the cluster. You will also be introduced to the psql client, which ships with ...
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