Beginning Databases
with PostgreSQL
From Novice to Professional, Second Edition
NEIL MATTHEW AND RICHARD STONES
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Beginning Databases with PostgreSQL: From Novice to Professional, Second Edition
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Contents at a Glance
About the Authors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xvii
About the Technical Reviewer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xix
Acknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxi
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxiii
CHAPTER 1 Introduction to PostgreSQL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
CHAPTER 2 Relational Database Principles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
CHAPTER 3 Getting Started with PostgreSQL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
CHAPTER 4 Accessing Your Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
CHAPTER 5 PostgreSQL Command-Line and Graphical Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113
CHAPTER 6 Data Interfacing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149
CHAPTER 7 Advanced Data Selection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173
CHAPTER 8 Data Definition and Manipulation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201
CHAPTER 9 Transactions and Locking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243
CHAPTER 10 Functions, Stored Procedures, and Triggers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267
CHAPTER 11 PostgreSQL Administration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309
CHAPTER 12 Database Design . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 357
CHAPTER 13 Accessing PostgreSQL from C Using libpq . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 385
CHAPTER 14 Accessing PostgreSQL from C Using Embedded SQL . . . . . . . . . . 419
CHAPTER 15 Accessing PostgreSQL from PHP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 445
CHAPTER 16 Accessing PostgreSQL from Perl . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 465
CHAPTER 17 Accessing PostgreSQL from Java . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 491
CHAPTER 18 Accessing PostgreSQL from C# . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 517
APPENDIX A PostgreSQL Database Limits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 543
APPENDIX B PostgreSQL Data Types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 545
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APPENDIX C PostgreSQL SQL Syntax Reference . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 551
APPENDIX D psql Reference . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 573
APPENDIX E Database Schema and Tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 577
APPENDIX F Large Objects Support in PostgreSQL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 581
INDEX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 589
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