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Published inMar 2022
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Simon Riggs
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Simon Riggs

Simon Riggs is the CTO of 2ndQuadrant, having contributed to PostgreSQL as a major developer and committer for 14 years. He has written and designed features for replication, performance, BI, management, and security. Under his guidance, 2ndQuadrant is now a leading developer of open source PostgreSQL, serving hundreds of clients in USA, Europe, and worldwide. Simon is a frequent speaker at many conferences on PostgreSQL Futures. He has worked as a database architect for 30 years.
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Gianni Ciolli
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Gianni Ciolli

Gianni Ciolli is the Vice President for Solutions Architecture at EnterpriseDB (EDB). As a PostgreSQL consultant, he has driven many successful enterprise deployments for customers in every part of the globe.Gianni is respected worldwide as a popular speaker and trainer at many PostgreSQL conferences in Europe and abroad over the last 14 years. He has worked with free and open-source software since the 1990s as an active member of the community (Prato Linux User Group, and Italian PostgreSQL Users Group). Gianni has a Ph.D. in Mathematics from the University of Florence. He lives in London with his son. His other interests include music, drama, poetry and athletics.
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How to get PostgreSQL

PostgreSQL is 100% open source software and is freely available to use, alter, or redistribute in any way you choose. Its license is an approved open source license, very similar to the Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD) license, though only just different enough that it is now known as The PostgreSQL License (TPL). You can see the license here: https://opensource.org/licenses/PostgreSQL.

How to do it...

PostgreSQL is already being used by many different application packages, so you may find it already installed on your servers. Many Linux distributions include PostgreSQL as part of the basic installation or include it with the installation disk.

One thing to be wary of is that the included version of PostgreSQL may not be the latest release. It will typically be the latest major release that was available when that operating system release was published. There is usually no good reason to stick...

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Published in: Mar 2022Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781803248974

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Simon Riggs

Simon Riggs is the CTO of 2ndQuadrant, having contributed to PostgreSQL as a major developer and committer for 14 years. He has written and designed features for replication, performance, BI, management, and security. Under his guidance, 2ndQuadrant is now a leading developer of open source PostgreSQL, serving hundreds of clients in USA, Europe, and worldwide. Simon is a frequent speaker at many conferences on PostgreSQL Futures. He has worked as a database architect for 30 years.
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Gianni Ciolli

Gianni Ciolli is the Vice President for Solutions Architecture at EnterpriseDB (EDB). As a PostgreSQL consultant, he has driven many successful enterprise deployments for customers in every part of the globe.Gianni is respected worldwide as a popular speaker and trainer at many PostgreSQL conferences in Europe and abroad over the last 14 years. He has worked with free and open-source software since the 1990s as an active member of the community (Prato Linux User Group, and Italian PostgreSQL Users Group). Gianni has a Ph.D. in Mathematics from the University of Florence. He lives in London with his son. His other interests include music, drama, poetry and athletics.
Read more about Gianni Ciolli