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Introduction to PostgreSQL

  • A Brief History of PostgreSQL
  • Key Features
  • Summary of Internals
  • Limits and Terminology

Installation and Configuration

  • Prerequisites
  • Installing from Packages and Creating a Database
  • Installing from Source Code
  • Setting Up the Client
  • Starting and Stopping the Database Server
  • Environment Configuration

The SQL Language

  • SQL Syntax
  • Data Definition
  • Data Manipulation
  • Queries
  • Data Types
  • JSON Support
  • Functions and Operators
  • Type Conversion
  • Indexes

Transactions and Concurrency

  • Transactions and Isolation Levels
  • Multi-Version Concurrency Control (MVCC)

Client Interfaces

  • Command Line Interface - psql
  • Graphical Interface - pgadmin4

Server Programming

  • Extending SQL
  • Triggers
  • The Rule System
  • Procedural Languages
  • PL/pgSQL - SQL Procedural Language
  • Error Handling
  • Cursors

Foreign Data Wrappers

  • Extensions in PostgreSQL
  • Adding FDW to a Database
  • postgres_fdw
  • file_fdw
  • Other FDWs

SQL Tuning

  • Logging in PostgreSQL
  • Understanding Query Plans
  • Optimizing Queries
  • Statistics
  • Planner Parameters
  • Parallel Query Scans
  • SQL Best Practices
  • Indexes
  • Table Partitioning

Requirements

A solid working knowledge of SQL

 14 Hours

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