Course Outline
What is PostgreSQL?
- A Concise History of PostgreSQL
- Standard Conventions
- Additional Resources
- Guidelines for Reporting Bugs
Introduction to PostgreSQL
- Installation and Database Creation
- Overview of the SQL Language
- Advanced Capabilities
The SQL Language
- SQL Syntax Structure
- Data Definition
- Data Manipulation
- Querying
- Data Types
- Functions and Operators
- Type Casting
- Indexing
- Full Text Search
- Concurrency Control
- Performance Optimization Tips
Server Administration
- Building from Source Code
- Building from Source Code on Windows
- Server Configuration and Operations
- Server Configuration Parameters
- Client Authentication Methods
- Database Roles
- Database Management
- Localization Settings
- Regular Database Maintenance
- Backup and Restoration
- High Availability, Load Balancing, and Replication
- Recovery Setup
- Tracking Database Activity
- Monitoring Disk Space Usage
- Reliability and the Write-Ahead Log
- Regression Testing
Client Interfaces
- libpq - C Client Library
- Handling Large Objects
- ECPG - Embedded SQL in C
- The Information Schema
Server Programming
- Extending SQL Functionality
- Triggers
- Rule System
- Procedural Languages
- PL/pgSQL - SQL Procedural Language
- PL/Tcl - Tcl Procedural Language
- PL/Perl - Perl Procedural Language
- PL/Python - Python Procedural Language
- Server Programming API
Internals
- PostgreSQL Architecture Overview
- System Catalogs
- Frontend/Backend Protocol
- PostgreSQL Coding Standards
- Native Language Support
- Developing a Procedural Language Handler
- Creating a Foreign Data Wrapper
- Genetic Query Optimizer
- Index Access Method Interface Definition
- GiST Indexes
- GIN Indexes
- Physical Database Storage
- BKI Backend Interface
- Utilizing Statistics in the Planner
Requirements
Practical experience with SQL and C
Foundational system administration skills (Unix/Linux or Windows)
Testimonials (7)
step by step examples, byte size information
Esmadee Bin Ismail - SBS transit
Course - PostgreSQL Administration and Development
The different techniques that can be used to get the same result it is just optimise with a few steps
Abdul Hafiz - SBS transit
Course - PostgreSQL Administration and Development
1. Notes on the whiteboard 2. Labs were executed in a sharing mode
Evangelos Katsaros
Course - PostgreSQL Administration and Development
The instructor explained everything we asked, he was very accurate, and he kept my interested.
Katerina Andreopoulou
Course - PostgreSQL Administration and Development
The fact that we had a chance to hear about the difference between many databases types.
Marta Melloch - Amazon Development Center Poland Sp. z o.o.
Course - PostgreSQL Administration and Development
useful knowledge
Ewa Napieralska - Amazon Development Center Poland Sp. z o.o.
Course - PostgreSQL Administration and Development
The exercises and that the trainers was very responsive and was listening to us actively. He was also very patient with us. THANK YOU SO MUCH :)
