May 2018
Intermediate to advanced
576 pages
30h 25m
English
PostgreSQL is already being used by many different application packages, so you may find it already installed on your servers. Many Linux distributions include PostgreSQL as part of the basic installation, or include it with the installation disk.
One thing to be wary of is that the included version of PostgreSQL may not be the latest release. It would typically be the latest major release that was available when that operating system release was published. There is usually no good reason to stick to that level—there is no increased stability implied there—and later production versions are just as well supported by the various Linux distributions as the earlier versions.
If you don't have a copy yet, or you don't have the ...