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Learning PostgreSQL 11

You're reading from   Learning PostgreSQL 11 A beginner's guide to building high-performance PostgreSQL database solutions

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2019
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ISBN-13 9781789535464
Length 556 pages
Edition 3rd Edition
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Andrey Volkov Andrey Volkov
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Christopher Travers Christopher Travers
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Table of Contents (18) Chapters Close

1. Relational Databases FREE CHAPTER 2. PostgreSQL in Action 3. PostgreSQL Basic Building Blocks 4. PostgreSQL Advanced Building Blocks 5. SQL Language 6. Advanced Query Writing 7. Server-Side Programming with PL/pgSQL 8. OLAP and Data Warehousing 9. Beyond Conventional Data Types 10. Transactions and Concurrency Control 11. PostgreSQL Security 12. The PostgreSQL Catalog 13. Optimizing Database Performance 14. Testing 15. Using PostgreSQL in Python Applications 16. Scalability 17. What's Next? 18. Other Books You May Enjoy

Installing PostgreSQL

PostgreSQL can be installed on almost all modern operating systems. It can be installed on all recent Linux distributions, Windows 2000 SP4 and later, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, macOS, AIX, and Solaris. Also, PostgreSQL can work on various CPU architectures, including x86, x86_64, and IA64. You can check whether a platform (operating system and CPU architecture combination) is supported by exploring the PostgreSQL build farm at http://buildfarm.postgresql.org/. You can compile and install

In order to automate PostgreSQL installation and to reduce server administrative tasks, it's recommended you use PostgreSQL binaries, which come with the operating system packaging system. This approach normally has one drawback: binaries that aren't up to date. However, PostgreSQL's official website maintains the binaries for the most common platforms, including BSD...

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