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Mastering PostgreSQL 15 - Fifth Edition

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Published in Jan 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781803248349
Pages 522 pages
Edition 5th Edition
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Author (1):
Hans-Jürgen Schönig Hans-Jürgen Schönig
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Hans-Jürgen Schönig has 20 years' experience with PostgreSQL. He is the CEO of a PostgreSQL consulting and support company called CYBERTEC PostgreSQL International GmbH. It has successfully served countless customers around the globe. Before founding CYBERTEC PostgreSQL International GmbH in 2000, he worked as a database developer at a private research company that focused on the Austrian labor market, where he primarily worked on data mining and forecast models. He has also written several books about PostgreSQL.
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Table of Contents (16) Chapters

Preface Chapter 1: PostgreSQL 15 Overview Chapter 2: Understanding Transactions and Locking Chapter 3: Making Use of Indexes Chapter 4: Handling Advanced SQL Chapter 5: Log Files and System Statistics Chapter 6: Optimizing Queries for Good Performance Chapter 7: Writing Stored Procedures Chapter 8: Managing PostgreSQL Security Chapter 9: Handling Backup and Recovery Chapter 10: Making Sense of Backups and Replication Chapter 11: Deciding on Useful Extensions Chapter 12: Troubleshooting PostgreSQL Chapter 13: Migrating to PostgreSQL Index Other Books You May Enjoy

Other useful extensions

The extensions that we have described so far are all part of the PostgreSQL contrib package, which is shipped as part of the PostgreSQL source code. However, the packages that we’ve looked at here aren’t the only ones that are available in the PostgreSQL community. Many more packages allow us to do all kinds of things.

The number of modules is growing daily, and it is impossible to cover them all. Therefore, I only want to point out the ones I find the most important.

PostGIS (http://postgis.net/) is the geographical information system (GIS) database interface in the open source world. It has been adopted around the globe and is a de facto standard in the relational open source database world. It is a professional and extremely powerful solution.

If you are looking for geospatial routing, pgRouting may be just the thing. It offers various algorithms that you can use to find the best connections between locations and works on top of PostgreSQL...

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Authors (1)

Profile icon Hans-Jürgen Schönig
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Hans-Jürgen Schönig has 20 years' experience with PostgreSQL. He is the CEO of a PostgreSQL consulting and support company called CYBERTEC PostgreSQL International GmbH. It has successfully served countless customers around the globe. Before founding CYBERTEC PostgreSQL International GmbH in 2000, he worked as a database developer at a private research company that focused on the Austrian labor market, where he primarily worked on data mining and forecast models. He has also written several books about PostgreSQL.
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