Thinking of migrating to PostgreSQL? This clear, fast-paced introduction
helps you understand and use this open source database system. Not only
will you learn about the enterprise class features in versions 9.5 to
10, youâ ll also discover that PostgeSQL is more than a database systemâ
itâ s an impressive application platform as well.
With examples throughout, this book shows you how to achieve tasks that
are difficult or impossible in other databases. This third edition
covers new features, such as ANSI-SQL constructs found only in
proprietary databases until now: foreign data wrapper (FDW)
enhancements; new full text functions and operator syntax introduced in
version 9.6; XML constructs new in version 10; query parallelization
features introduced in 9.6 and enhanced in 10; built-in logical
replication introduced in Version 10.e.
If youâ re a current PostgreSQL user, youâ ll pick up gems you may have
missed before.
- Learn basic administration tasks such as role management, database
creation, backup, and restore
- Apply the psql command-line utility and the pgAdmin graphical
administration tool
- Explore PostgreSQL tables, constraints, and indexes
- Learn powerful SQL constructs not generally found in other databases
- Use several different languages to write database functions
- Tune your queries to run as fast as your hardware will allow
- Query external and variegated data sources with foreign data wrappers
- Learn how to use built-in replication to replicate data
