PostgreSQL tutorial

Table of contents

• About
• Getting started with postgresql
• Remarks
• Versions
• Examples
• Installation on GNU+Linux
• Red Hat family
• Debian family
• How to install PostgreSQL via MacPorts on OSX
• Postgres.app for Mac OSX
• Installing PostgreSQL on Windows
• Install postgresql with brew on Mac
• Install PostgreSQL from Source on Linux
• Accessing Data Programmatically
• Examples
• Accessing Postgresql from .NET using the Npgsql provider
• Accessing PostgreSQL with the C-API
• Compilation and linking
• Sample program
• Accessing PostgreSQL from python using psycopg2
• Accessing PostgreSQL from PHP using Pomm2
• Aggregate Functions
• Examples
• Simple statistics: min(), max(), avg()
• string_agg(expression, delimiter)
• regr_slope(Y, X) : slope of the least-squares-fit linear equation determined by the (X, Y)
• Backup and Restore
• Remarks
• Backing up the filesystem instead of using pg_dumpall and pg_dump
• Examples
• Accessing Data Programmatically
• Backup and Restore
• COALESCE
• Common Table Expressions (WITH)
• Data Types
• Event Triggers
• EXTENSION dblink and postgres_fdw
• Inheritance
• JSON Support
• Postgres Tip and Tricks
• Programming with PL/pgSQL
• Role Management
• Table Creation
• UPDATE

It is a free PostgreSQL ebook created for beginners. The content is extracted from Stack Overflow pltaform, which is written by many PostgreSQL developers and contributors.

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