Chapter 01, Relational Databases, introduces relational database system concepts, including relational database properties, relational algebra, and database modeling. Also, it describes different database management systems such as graph, document, key value, and columnar databases.
Chapter 02, PostgreSQL in Action, provides first-hand experience of installing the PostgreSQL server and client tools on different platforms. This chapter also introduces PostgreSQL capabilities, such as out-of-the-box replication support and its very rich data types.
Chapter 03, PostgreSQL Basic Building Blocks, provides some coding best practices, such as coding conventions of PostgreSQL and identifier names. This chapter describes the ...