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PostgreSQL 10 Administration Cookbook - Fourth Edition
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PostgreSQL 10 Administration Cookbook - Fourth Edition

by Simon Riggs, Gianni Ciolli
May 2018
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
576 pages
30h 25m
English
Packt Publishing
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There are also some commercial tools used to generate application-specific test data for PostgreSQL. They are available at http://www.sqlmanager.net/products/postgresql/datagenerator and http://www.datanamic.com/datagenerator/index.html.

The key features for any data generator are as follows:

  • The ability to generate data in the right format for custom data types
  • The ability to add data to multiple tables, while respecting foreign key constraints between tables
  • The ability to add data to non-uniform distributions

The tools and tricks shown here are cool and clever, though there are some problems hiding here as well. Real data has so many strange things in it that it can be very hard to simulate. One of the most difficult things ...

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