PostgreSQL 17devel 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. Server Setup and Operation
19. Server Configuration
20. Client Authentication
21. Database Roles
22. Managing Databases
23. Localization
24. Routine Database Maintenance Tasks
25. Backup and Restore
26. High Availability, Load Balancing, and Replication
27. Monitoring Database Activity
28. Monitoring Disk Usage
29. Reliability and the Write-Ahead Log
30. Logical Replication
31. Just-in-Time Compilation (JIT)
32. Regression Tests
IV. Client Interfaces
33. libpq — C Library
34. Large Objects
35. ECPG — Embedded SQL in C
36. The Information Schema
V. Server Programming
37. Extending SQL
38. Triggers
39. Event Triggers
40. The Rule System
41. Procedural Languages
42. PL/pgSQLSQL Procedural Language
43. PL/Tcl — Tcl Procedural Language
44. PL/Perl — Perl Procedural Language
45. PL/Python — Python Procedural Language
46. Server Programming Interface
47. Background Worker Processes
48. Logical Decoding
49. Replication Progress Tracking
50. Archive Modules
VI. Reference
I. SQL Commands
II. PostgreSQL Client Applications
III. PostgreSQL Server Applications
VII. Internals
51. Overview of PostgreSQL Internals
52. System Catalogs
53. System Views
54. Frontend/Backend Protocol
55. PostgreSQL Coding Conventions
56. Native Language Support
57. Writing a Procedural Language Handler
58. Writing a Foreign Data Wrapper
59. Writing a Table Sampling Method
60. Writing a Custom Scan Provider
61. Genetic Query Optimizer
62. Table Access Method Interface Definition
63. Index Access Method Interface Definition
64. Generic WAL Records
65. Custom WAL Resource Managers
66. B-Tree Indexes
67. GiST Indexes
68. SP-GiST Indexes
69. GIN Indexes
70. BRIN Indexes
71. Hash Indexes
72. Database Physical Storage
73. Transaction Processing
74. System Catalog Declarations and Initial Contents
75. How the Planner Uses Statistics
76. Backup Manifest Format
VIII. 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. syncfs() Caveats
P. Obsolete or Renamed Features
Bibliography
Index