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Beginning Databases with PostgreSQL

Dušan Dimitrić edited this page Sep 23, 2016 · 18 revisions

Beginning Databases with PostgreSQL

Beginning Databases with PostgreSQL

Although this book is concerned with PostgreSQL version 8 and its database design is questionable, it's still a pretty good source for learning Postgres.

Notes:

1. Introduction to PostgreSQL

2. Relational Database Principles

3. Getting Started with PostgreSQL

  • pg. 55 - Creating Users (using the createuser.exe)
  • pg. 66 - Creating Databases (using the createdb.exe)
  • pg. 67 - Creating Tables
  • pg. 68 - Deleting Tables When a table is dropped, its sequence relations are also deleted so there's no need to delete them manually.
  • pg. 69 - Populating Tables

4. Accessing Your Data

This entire chapter is devoted to the SELECT statement.

  • pg. 74 - Connecting to PostgreSQL using psql.exe
  • pg. 75 - Connecting to a remote server.
  • pg. 78 - Essential psql commands list

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