Course Outline
Understanding PostgreSQL
- A Brief History of PostgreSQL
- Standard Conventions
- Additional Resources
- Guidelines for Reporting Bugs
Introduction to PostgreSQL
- Installation Procedures and Database Creation
- The SQL Language Overview
- Exploring Advanced Features
The SQL Language
- SQL Syntax Structures
- Data Definition Capabilities
- Data Manipulation Techniques
- Executing Queries
- Data Types
- Functions and Operators
- Type Conversion Methods
- Implementing Indexes
- Full Text Search Functionality
- Concurrency Control Mechanisms
- Performance Optimization Tips
Server Administration
- Installing from Source Code
- Installing from Source Code on Windows
- Server Setup and Operational Management
- Server Configuration Options
- Client Authentication Protocols
- Managing Database Roles
- Database Management Tasks
- Localization Settings
- Routine Database Maintenance Activities
- Backup and Restore Procedures
- High Availability, Load Balancing, and Replication Strategies
- Recovery Configuration
- Monitoring Database Activity
- Monitoring Disk Usage
- Reliability and the Write-Ahead Log
- Running Regression Tests
Client Interfaces
- libpq - C Library
- Handling Large Objects
- ECPG - Embedded SQL in C
- Utilizing the Information Schema
Server Programming
- Extending SQL Functionality
- Implementing Triggers
- The 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 Interface
Internals
- Overview of PostgreSQL Internals
- System Catalogs
- Frontend/Backend Protocol
- PostgreSQL Coding Conventions
- Native Language Support
- Writing a Procedural Language Handler
- Writing a Foreign Data Wrapper
- Genetic Query Optimizer
- Index Access Method Interface Definition
- GiST Indexes
- GIN Indexes
- Database Physical Storage Architecture
- BKI Backend Interface
- How the Planner Uses Statistics
Requirements
A functional understanding of SQL and C programming languages
Foundational knowledge of system administration (on Unix/Linux or Windows platforms)
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 :)
