Book

PostgreSQL Server Programming

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Difficulty Level

Intermediate

Completion Time

10h40m

Language

English

About Book

Who Is This Book For?

This book is for moderate to advanced PostgreSQL database professionals who wish to extend PostgreSQL, utilizing the most updated features of PostgreSQL 9.4. For a better understanding of this book, familiarity with writing SQL, a basic idea of query tuning, and some coding experience in your preferred language is expected.

Book content

chapters 10h40m total length

Why 'program in the server'?

Introduction to PostgreSQL server programming fundamentals

Writing Your First PL/PgSQL Function

Advanced PL/PgSQL - Creating Set Returning and Table Functions, Using Cursors

Defining and Using PL/PgSQL TRIGGER functions

Writing PostgreSQL Event Trigger Functions

Debugging PL/PgSQL

Using unrestricted language - PL/pythonu

Writing Z Functions in C

Scaling Your Database with pl/proxy

PL/Perl - Perl Procedural Language

PL/Tcl - Tcl Procedural Language

Publishing Your Code as Extensions

Learning More About PostgreSQL as Extensible RDBMS

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