PostgreSQL 14.10 Documentation
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PostgreSQL 14.10 Documentation

The PostgreSQL Global Development Group

Copyright © 1996–2023 The PostgreSQL Global Development Group

Table of Contents

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/pgSQL — SQL 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

VI. Reference

I. SQL Commands
II. PostgreSQL Client Applications
III. PostgreSQL Server Applications

VII. Internals

51. Overview of PostgreSQL Internals
52. System Catalogs
53. Frontend/Backend Protocol
54. PostgreSQL Coding Conventions
55. Native Language Support
56. Writing a Procedural Language Handler
57. Writing a Foreign Data Wrapper
58. Writing a Table Sampling Method
59. Writing a Custom Scan Provider
60. Genetic Query Optimizer
61. Table Access Method Interface Definition
62. Index Access Method Interface Definition
63. Generic WAL Records
64. B-Tree Indexes
65. GiST Indexes
66. SP-GiST Indexes
67. GIN Indexes
68. BRIN Indexes
69. Hash Indexes
70. Database Physical Storage
71. System Catalog Declarations and Initial Contents
72. How the Planner Uses Statistics
73. 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
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

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