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PostgreSQL 11 Server Side Programming Quick Start Guide

By : Luca Ferrari
Book Image

PostgreSQL 11 Server Side Programming Quick Start Guide

By: Luca Ferrari

Overview of this book

PostgreSQL is a rock-solid, scalable, and safe enterprise-level relational database. With a broad range of features and stability, it is ever increasing in popularity.This book shows you how to take advantage of PostgreSQL 11 features for server-side programming. Server-side programming enables strong data encapsulation and coherence. The book begins with the importance of server-side programming and explains the risks of leaving all the checks outside the database. To build your capabilities further, you will learn how to write stored procedures, both functions and the new PostgreSQL 11 procedures, and create triggers to perform encapsulation and maintain data consistency. You will also learn how to produce extensions, the easiest way to package your programs for easy and solid deployment on different PostgreSQL installations.
Table of Contents (12 chapters)

Summary

PostgreSQL is a powerful and feature-rich enterprise-level database. It allows database administrators and application developers to store code directly in the server and execute code whenever it is required, allowing us to use a server-side-programming approach. The advantage of having code that is executed by the server itself is that it runs nearer the data, it is under the control of the server, and it is centralized, which means that every connection that accesses the data will execute the same code.

Developing in PostgreSQL is fun and powerful, thanks to its rich and modular platform.