PostgreSQL Enterprise Server 16.0 Documentation

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Table of Contents

Preface
1. What Is PostgreSQL?
2. A Brief History of PostgreSQL
3. Conventions
4. Further Information
5. Bug Reporting Guidelines
I. Tutorial
1. Getting Started
2. The SQL Language
3. Advanced Features
II. The SQL Language
4. SQL Syntax
5. Data Definition
6. Data Manipulation
7. Queries
8. Data Types
9. Functions and Operators
10. Type Conversion
11. Indexes
12. Full Text Search
13. Concurrency Control
14. Performance Tips
15. Parallel Query
III. Server Administration
16. Installation from Binaries
17. Installation from Source Code
18. Installation from Source Code on Windows
19. Server Setup and Operation
20. Server Configuration
21. Client Authentication
22. Database Roles
23. Managing Databases
24. Localization
25. Routine Database Maintenance Tasks
26. Backup and Restore
27. High Availability, Load Balancing, and Replication
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
39. Triggers
40. Event Triggers
41. The Rule System
42. Procedural Languages
43. PL/pgSQLSQL 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
51. Archive Modules
VI. Enterprise Features
52. Multimaster
53. Transparent Data Encryption
54. Autonomous Transactions
55. Reorganizing Tables
56. Automatic Tuning
57. Connection Pooling
58. More Enterprise Features
VII. Reference
I. SQL Commands
II. PostgreSQL Client Applications
III. PostgreSQL Server Applications
VIII. Internals
59. Overview of PostgreSQL Internals
60. System Catalogs
61. System Views
62. Frontend/Backend Protocol
63. PostgreSQL Coding Conventions
64. Native Language Support
65. Writing a Procedural Language Handler
66. Writing a Foreign Data Wrapper
67. Writing a Table Sampling Method
68. Writing a Custom Scan Provider
69. Genetic Query Optimizer
70. Table Access Method Interface Definition
71. Index Access Method Interface Definition
72. Generic WAL Records
73. Custom WAL Resource Managers
74. B-Tree Indexes
75. GiST Indexes
76. SP-GiST Indexes
77. GIN Indexes
78. BRIN Indexes
79. Hash Indexes
80. Database Physical Storage
81. Transaction Processing
82. System Catalog Declarations and Initial Contents
83. How the Planner Uses Statistics
84. Backup Manifest Format
IX. Appendixes
A. PostgreSQL Error Codes
B. Date/Time Support
C. SQL Key Words
D. SQL Conformance
E. Release Notes
F. Additional Supplied Modules and Extensions
G. Additional Supplied Programs
H. External Projects
I. The Source Code Repository
J. Documentation
K. PostgreSQL Limits
L. Acronyms
M. Glossary
N. Color Support
O. Obsolete or Renamed Features
Bibliography
Index