October 2017
Intermediate to advanced
314 pages
8h 13m
English
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Chapter 1. The Basics
PostgreSQL is an extremely powerful piece of software that introduces features you may not have seen before. Some of the features are also present in other well-known database engines, but under different names. This chapter lays out the main concepts you should know when starting to attack PostgreSQL documentation, and mentions some related terms in other databases.
We begin by pointing you to resources for downloading and installing PostgreSQL. Next, we provide an overview of indispensable administration tools followed by a review of PostgreSQL nomenclature. PostgreSQL 10 was recently released. We’ll highlight some of the new features therein. We close with resources to turn to when you need additional guidance and to submit bug reports.
Why PostgreSQL?
PostgreSQL is an enterprise-class relational database management system, on par with the very best proprietary database systems: Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, and IBM DB2, just to name a few. PostgreSQL is special because it’s not just a database: it’s also an application platform, and an impressive one at that.
PostgreSQL is fast. In benchmarks, PostgreSQL either exceeds or matches the performance of many other databases, both open source and proprietary.
PostgreSQL invites you to write stored procedures and functions in numerous programming languages. In addition to the prepackaged languages of C, SQL, and PL/pgSQL, you can easily enable support for additional languages such as PL/Perl, PL/Python, PL/V8 (aka ...
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