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Learn PostgreSQL
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Learn PostgreSQL

by Luca Ferrari, Enrico Pirozzi
October 2020
Beginner content levelBeginner
650 pages
13h 25m
English
Packt Publishing
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Getting to Know Your Cluster

In order to be a proficient user and administrator of a PostgreSQL cluster, you first have to 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 a 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 introduce you to the main PostgreSQL terminology and concepts, as well as teach you how to connect to the cluster. This chapter will also introduce you to the psql client, which ships with PostgreSQL and is the recommended way ...

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