PostgreSQL Essential Reference Manual

Author: Barry Stinson
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Publish Date: 2002-03-01
Features: This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the relational database management system (RDBMS) PostgreSQL. The book is divided into five parts. Part (Chapter 1) lists all the SQL commands supported by PostgreSQL 7.1. The second part (Chapters 2 to 5) covers PostgreSQL data types, operators, and functions. The third part (Chapters 6 to 10) helps users easily manage PostgreSQL by introducing executable files, system executable files, system configuration files and libraries, and log files. The fourth part (Chapters 11 to 14) teaches PostgreSQL programming knowledge, including server-side programming, client-side programming, creating custom functions, and other advanced PostgreSQL programming techniques. The fifth part (Appendix A, Appendix B) provides rich PostgreSQL reference resources and historical version information of PostgreSQL. This book is suitable for PostgreSQL programmers to read and can also be used as a reference for database system administrators.