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The PostgreSQL Global Development Group
Copyright © 1996-2022 The PostgreSQL Global Development Group
Legal Notice
Table of Contents
Preface
1. What is
PostgreSQL
?
2. A Brief History of
PostgreSQL
3. Conventions
4. Further Information
5. Bug Reporting Guidelines
I. Tutorial
1. Getting Started
2. The
SQL
Language
3. Advanced Features
II. The SQL Language
4. SQL Syntax
5. Data Definition
6. Data Manipulation
7. Queries
8. Data Types
9. Functions and Operators
10. Type Conversion
11. Indexes
12. Full Text Search
13. Concurrency Control
14. Performance Tips
15. Parallel Query
III. Server Administration
16. Installation from Source Code
17. Installation from Source Code on
Windows
18. Server Setup and Operation
19. Server Configuration
20. Client Authentication
21. Database Roles
22. Managing Databases
23. Localization
24. Routine Database Maintenance Tasks
25. Backup and Restore
26. High Availability, Load Balancing, and Replication
27. Recovery Configuration
28. Monitoring Database Activity
29. Monitoring Disk Usage
30. Reliability and the Write-Ahead Log
31. Logical Replication
32. Regression Tests
IV. Client Interfaces
33.
libpq
- C Library
34. Large Objects
35.
ECPG
- Embedded
SQL
in C
36. The Information Schema
V. Server Programming
37. Extending
SQL
38. Triggers
39. Event Triggers
40. The Rule System
41. Procedural Languages
42.
PL/pgSQL
-
SQL
Procedural Language
43. PL/Tcl - Tcl Procedural Language
44. PL/Perl - Perl Procedural Language
45. PL/Python - Python Procedural Language
46. Server Programming Interface
47. Background Worker Processes
48. Logical Decoding
49. Replication Progress Tracking
VI. Reference
I. SQL Commands
II. PostgreSQL Client Applications
III. PostgreSQL Server Applications
VII. Internals
50. Overview of PostgreSQL Internals
51. System Catalogs
52. Frontend/Backend Protocol
53. PostgreSQL Coding Conventions
54. Native Language Support
55. Writing A Procedural Language Handler
56. Writing A Foreign Data Wrapper
57. Writing A Table Sampling Method
58. Writing A Custom Scan Provider
59. Genetic Query Optimizer
60. Index Access Method Interface Definition
61. Generic WAL Records
62. GiST Indexes
63. SP-GiST Indexes
64. GIN Indexes
65. BRIN Indexes
66. Hash Indexes
67. Database Physical Storage
68.
BKI
Backend Interface
69. How the Planner Uses Statistics
VIII. Appendixes
A.
PostgreSQL
Error Codes
B. Date/Time Support
C.
SQL
Key Words
D. SQL Conformance
E. Release Notes
F. Additional Supplied Modules
G. Additional Supplied Programs
H. External Projects
I. The Source Code Repository
J. Documentation
K. Acronyms
L. Obsolete or Renamed Features
Bibliography
Index