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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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7. Database Administration

In this chapter, we will cover the following recipes:

  • Writing a script that either succeeds entirely or fails entirely
  • Writing a psql script that exits on the first error
  • Using psql variables
  • Placing query output into psql variables
  • Writing a conditional psql script
  • Investigating a psql error
  • Performing actions on many tables
  • Adding/removing columns on a table
  • Changing the data type of a column
  • Changing the definition of a data type
  • Adding/removing schemas
  • Moving objects between schemas
  • Adding/removing tablespaces
  • Moving objects between tablespaces
  • Accessing objects in other PostgreSQL databases
  • Accessing objects in other foreign databases
  • Updatable views
  • Using materialized views
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