PostgreSQL: Up and Running

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"O'Reilly Media, Inc.", 2012 - Всего страниц: 147

Thinking of migrating to PostgreSQL? This updated guide helps you quickly understand and use the 9.3 release of this open source database system. You ll not only learn about its unique enterprise-class features, but also discover that PostgeSQL is more than just a database system it s also an impressive application platform.

Using numerous examples, this book shows you how to achieve tasks that are difficult or impossible in other databases. The second edition covers LATERAL queries, augmented JSON support, materialized views, and other key topics. If you re an existing PostgreSQL user, you ll pick up gems you may have missed along the way.Learn basic administration tasks, such as role management, database creation, backup, and restoreApply the psql command-line utility and the pgAdmin graphical administration toolExplore PostgreSQL tables, constraints, and indexesLearn powerful SQL constructs not generally found in other databasesUse several different languages to write database functionsTune your queries to run as fast as your hardware will allowQuery external and variegated data sources with Foreign Data WrappersLearn how to replicate data, using built-in replication features"

 

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Chapter 1 The Basics
1
Chapter 2 Database Administration
9
Chapter 3 psql
31
Chapter 4 Using pgAdmin
43
Chapter 5 Data Types
59
Chapter 6 Of Tables Constraints and Indexes
75
The PostgreSQL Way
87
Chapter 8 Writing Functions
101
Chapter 9 Query Performance Tuning
113
Chapter 10 Replication and External Data
125
Appendix Install Hosting and CommandLine Guides
133
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Regina Obe is a co-principal of Paragon Corporation, a database consulting company based in Boston. She has over 15 years of professional experience in various programming languages and database systems, with special focus on spatial databases. She is a member of the PostGIS steering committee and the PostGIS core development team. Regina holds a BS degree in mechanical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She co-authored PostGIS in Action. Leo Hsu is a co-principal of Paragon Corporation, a database consulting company based in Boston. He has over 15 years of professional experience developing and thinking about databases for organizations large and small. Leo holds an MS degree in engineering of economic systems from Stanford University and BS degrees in mechanical engineering and economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He co-authored PostGIS in Action. Leo Hsu is a co-principal of Paragon Corporation, a database consulting company based in Boston. He has over 15 years of professional experience developing and thinking about databases for organizations large and small. Leo holds an MS degree in engineering of economic systems from Stanford University and BS degrees in mechanical engineering and economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He co-authored PostGIS in Action.

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