PostgreSQL 10.17 Documentation
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PostgreSQL 10.17 Documentation

The PostgreSQL Global Development Group

Copyright © 1996-2021 The PostgreSQL Global Development Group

Copyright © 2015-2020 Postgres Professional

Table of Contents

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. Binary Installation
17. Installation from Source Code
18. Installation from Source Code on Windows
19. Server Setup and Operation
20. Server Configuration
21. Client Authentication
22. Database Roles
23. Managing Databases
24. Localization
25. Routine Database Maintenance Tasks
26. Backup and Restore
27. High Availability, Load Balancing, and Replication
28. Recovery Configuration
29. Monitoring Database Activity
30. Monitoring Disk Usage
31. Reliability and the Write-Ahead Log
32. Logical Replication
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. GiST Indexes
64. SP-GiST Indexes
65. GIN Indexes
66. BRIN Indexes
67. Database Physical Storage
68. BKI Backend Interface
69. 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. Configuring PostgreSQL for 1C Solutions
J. The Source Code Repository
K. Documentation
L. Acronyms
M. Obsolete or Renamed Features

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