PostgreSQL

PostgreSQL 11.22 Documentation

The PostgreSQL Global Development Group

Copyright © 1996-2023 The PostgreSQL Global Development Group

Table of Contents

1. What is PostgreSQL?

2. A Brief History of PostgreSQL

4. Further Information

5. Bug Reporting Guidelines

1. Getting Started

2. The SQL Language

3. Advanced Features

II. The SQL Language

5. Data Definition

6. Data Manipulation

9. Functions and Operators

10. Type Conversion

12. Full Text Search

13. Concurrency Control

14. Performance Tips

15. Parallel Query

III. Server Administration

16. Installation from Source Code

17. Installation from Source Code on Windows

18. Server Setup and Operation

19. Server Configuration

20. Client Authentication

21. Database Roles

22. Managing Databases

23. Localization

24. Routine Database Maintenance Tasks

25. Backup and Restore

26. High Availability, Load Balancing, and Replication

27. Recovery Configuration

28. Monitoring Database Activity

29. Monitoring Disk Usage

30. Reliability and the Write-Ahead Log

31. Logical Replication

32. Just-in-Time Compilation (JIT)

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

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

I. SQL Commands

II. PostgreSQL Client Applications

III. PostgreSQL Server Applications

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. B-Tree Indexes

64. GiST Indexes

65. SP-GiST Indexes

66. GIN Indexes

67. BRIN Indexes

68. Hash Indexes

69. Database Physical Storage

70. System Catalog Declarations and Initial Contents

71. 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. The Source Code Repository

J. Documentation

L. Obsolete or Renamed Features

Preface

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