PostgreSQL tutorial for professionals

Download free PostgreSQL tutorial course in PDF, training file in 29 chapters and 74 pages. Free unaffiliated ebook created from Stack OverFlow contributor.

Table of contents

• About
• Getting started with PostgreSQL
• Installing PostgreSQL on Windows
• Install PostgreSQL from Source on Linux
• Installation on GNU+Linux
• How to install PostgreSQL via MacPorts on OSX
• Install postgresql with brew on Mac
• Postgresapp for Mac OSX
• Data Types
• Numeric Types
• Date/ Time Types
• Geometric Types
• Network Adress Types
• Character Types
• Arrays
• Dates, Timestamps, and Intervals
• SELECT the last day of month
• Cast a timestamp or interval to a string
• Count the number of records per week
• Table Creation
• Show table de?nition
• Create table from select
• Create unlogged table
• Table creation with Primary Key
• Create a table that references other table
• SELECT
• SELECT using WHERE
• Find String Length / Character Length
• Example to get length of a character varying ?eld
• COALESCE
• Single non null argument
• Multiple non null arguments
• All null arguments
• INSERT
• Insert data using COPY
• Inserting multiple rows
• INSERT data and RETURING values
• Basic INSERT
• Insert from select
• UPSERT - INSERT ON CONFLICT DO UPDATE
• SELECT data into ?le
• UPDATE
• Updating a table based on joining another table
• Update all rows in a table
• Update all rows meeting a condition
• Updating multiple columns in table
• Data Types
• Table Creation
• Find String Length / Character Length
• INSERT
• JSON Support
• Common Table Expressions (WITH)
• Recursive queries
• Inheritance
• Triggers and Trigger Functions
• Role Management
• Comments in PostgreSQL
• Backup script for a production DB
• Connect to PostgreSQL from Java
• EXTENSION dblink and postgres_fdw

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