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Mastering PostgreSQL 9.6

By : Hans-Jürgen Schönig
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Mastering PostgreSQL 9.6

By: Hans-Jürgen Schönig

Overview of this book

PostgreSQL is an open source database used for handling large datasets (Big Data) and as a JSON document database. It also has applications in the software and web domains. This book will enable you to build better PostgreSQL applications and administer databases more efficiently. We begin by explaining the advanced database design concepts in PostgreSQL 9.6, along with indexing and query optimization. You will also see how to work with event triggers and perform concurrent transactions and table partitioning, along with exploring SQL and server tuning. We will walk you through implementing advanced administrative tasks such as server maintenance and monitoring, replication, recovery and high availability, and much more. You will understand the common and not-so-common troubleshooting problems and how you can overcome them. By the end of this book, you will have an expert-level command of the advanced database functionalities and will be able to implement advanced administrative tasks with PostgreSQL.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)
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PostgreSQL Overview

Other useful extensions

The extensions described so far are all part of the PostgreSQL contrib package, which is shipped as part of the PostgreSQL source code. However, the packages you have seen are not the only ones available in the PostgreSQL community. There are many more packages that allow you to do all kinds of things.

Unfortunately, this chapter is too short to dig into all the stuff which is currently out there. The number of modules is growing day by day and it is impossible to cover them all. Therefore, I only want to point to the ones I find most important.

PostGIS (http://postgis.net/) is the geographical information systems (GIS) database interface in the open source world. It has been adopted around the globe and is one of the de facto standards in the relational open source database world. It is a professional an extremely powerful solution.

If you are looking for geospatial routing, pgRouting is...