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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)

PL/Java

PL/Java is a binding for the Java language that allows you to run Java code directly within the PostgreSQL server. The language does not come included with the official PostgreSQL release, so we have to install it.

Installing PL/Java

Installing PL/Java requires several steps. Luckily, it uses Apache Maven as a project management, dependency, and build system, so many of these steps are performed automatically. Here, the PL/Java version 1.5.1 Beta 1 will be installed, since it is the latest one available. This is not recommended for production use, so read the project release notes and installation instructions carefully before installing it in production environments.

To get a bleeding-edge version of PL/Java, it is...