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The PostgreSQL Global Development Group
Copyright © 1996-2023 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. Just-in-Time Compilation (
JIT
)
33. Regression Tests
IV. Client Interfaces
34.
libpq
- C Library
35. Large Objects
36.
ECPG
- Embedded
SQL
in C
37. The Information Schema
V. Server Programming
38. Extending
SQL
39. Triggers
40. Event Triggers
41. The Rule System
42. Procedural Languages
43.
PL/pgSQL
-
SQL
Procedural Language
44. PL/Tcl - Tcl Procedural Language
45. PL/Perl - Perl Procedural Language
46. PL/Python - Python Procedural Language
47. Server Programming Interface
48. Background Worker Processes
49. Logical Decoding
50. Replication Progress Tracking
VI. Reference
I. SQL Commands
II. PostgreSQL Client Applications
III. PostgreSQL Server Applications
VII. Internals
51. Overview of PostgreSQL Internals
52. System Catalogs
53. Frontend/Backend Protocol
54. PostgreSQL Coding Conventions
55. Native Language Support
56. Writing A Procedural Language Handler
57. Writing A Foreign Data Wrapper
58. Writing A Table Sampling Method
59. Writing A Custom Scan Provider
60. Genetic Query Optimizer
61. Index Access Method Interface Definition
62. Generic WAL Records
63. B-Tree Indexes
64. GiST Indexes
65. SP-GiST Indexes
66. GIN Indexes
67. BRIN Indexes
68. Hash Indexes
69. Database Physical Storage
70. System Catalog Declarations and Initial Contents
71. 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