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Learning PostgreSQL 10

By : Juba, Volkov

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Learning PostgreSQL 10

2.3 (6)

By: Juba, Volkov

Overview of this book

PostgreSQL is one of the most popular open source databases in the world, supporting the most advanced features included in SQL standards. This book will familiarize you with the latest features released in PostgreSQL 10. We’ll start with a thorough introduction to PostgreSQL and the new features introduced in PostgreSQL 10. We’ll cover the Data Definition Language (DDL) with an emphasis on PostgreSQL, and the common DDL commands supported by ANSI SQL. You’ll learn to create tables, define integrity constraints, build indexes, and set up views and other schema objects. Moving on, we’ll cover the concepts of Data Manipulation Language (DML) and PostgreSQL server-side programming capabilities using PL/pgSQL. We’ll also explore the NoSQL capabilities of PostgreSQL and connect to your PostgreSQL database to manipulate data objects. By the end of this book, you’ll have a thorough understanding of the basics of PostgreSQL 10 and will have the necessary skills to build efficient database solutions.

Preface

Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

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Relational Databases

Relational Databases

Database management systems

Relational and object relational databases

Relational algebra

Data modeling

Summary

PostgreSQL in Action

PostgreSQL in Action

An overview of PostgreSQL

PostgreSQL capabilities

Installing PostgreSQL

Summary

PostgreSQL Basic Building Blocks

PostgreSQL Basic Building Blocks

Database coding

PostgreSQL objects hierarchy

PostgreSQL database components

The car web portal database

Summary

PostgreSQL Advanced Building Blocks

PostgreSQL Advanced Building Blocks

Views

View synopsis

View categories

Updatable views

Indexes

Functions

User-defined data types

Triggers and rule systems

Summary

SQL Language

SQL Language

SQL fundamentals

Querying data with SELECT statements

Changing the data in the database

Summary

Advanced Query Writing

Advanced Query Writing

Common table expressions

Window functions

Advanced SQL techniques

Summary

Server-Side Programming with PL/pgSQL

Server-Side Programming with PL/pgSQL

SQL language and PL/pgSQL – a comparison

PostgreSQL function parameters

The PostgreSQL PL/pgSQL control statements

Function predefined variables

Exception handling

Dynamic SQL

Summary

OLAP and Data Warehousing

OLAP and Data Warehousing

Online analytical processing

Partitioning

Parallel query

Index-only scans

Summary

Beyond Conventional Data Types

Beyond Conventional Data Types

Arrays

The hash store data structure

The JSON data structure

A PostgreSQL full text search

Summary

Transactions and Concurrency Control

Transactions and Concurrency Control

Transactions

Explicit locking

Summary

PostgreSQL Security

PostgreSQL Security

Authentication in PostgreSQL

Authentication best practices

PostgreSQL default access privileges

Role system and proxy authentication

PostgreSQL security levels

Encrypting data

Summary

The PostgreSQL Catalog

The PostgreSQL Catalog

The system catalog

System catalog for administrators

Cleaning up the database

Tuning for performance

Selective dump

Summary

Optimizing Database Performance

Optimizing Database Performance

PostgreSQL configuration tuning

Tuning performance for write

Tuning performance for read

Detecting problems in query plans

Common mistakes in writing queries

Table partitioning

Query rewriting

Summary

Testing

Testing

Unit testing

Database abstraction interfaces

Summary

Using PostgreSQL in Python Applications

Using PostgreSQL in Python Applications

Python DB API 2.0

Low-level database access with psycopg2

Alternative drivers for PostgreSQL

Object relational mapping with SQLAlchemy

Summary

Scalability

Scalability

The problem of scalability and the CAP theorem

Data replication in PostgreSQL

Using replication to scale PostgreSQL

Summary

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Python DB API 2.0

PostgreSQL is not the only relational database and of course it is not the only one you can use with Python. There is an API in Python that is designed to unify the way applications work with databases. It is called the Python Database API. By the time this book was written, it already had the second specification, defined in the Python Enhancement Proposal (PEP) 249. The specification of the Python DB API 2.0 is available at https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0249/.

The API defines the following objects that are used when connecting to a database and interacting with it:

connection: This implements the logic of connecting to the database server, authenticating and managing transactions. A connection is created by calling the connect() function with a number of parameters that can differ depending on the database and the driver that is used.

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