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Learning PostgreSQL

You're reading from   Learning PostgreSQL Create, develop and manage relational databases in real world applications using PostgreSQL

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Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2015
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781783989188
Length 464 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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 Juba Juba
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Achim Vannahme Achim Vannahme
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Table of Contents (21) Chapters Close

Learning PostgreSQL
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. Relational Databases FREE CHAPTER 2. PostgreSQL in Action 3. PostgreSQL Basic Building Blocks 4. PostgreSQL Advanced Building Blocks 5. SQL Language 6. Advanced Query Writing 7. Server-Side Programming with PL/pgSQL 8. PostgreSQL Security 9. The PostgreSQL System Catalog and System Administration Functions 10. Optimizing Database Performance 11. Beyond Conventional Data types 12. Testing 13. PostgreSQL JDBC 14. PostgreSQL and Hibernate Index

PostgreSQL high-level object interaction


To sum up, a PostgreSQL server can contain many databases, programming languages, roles, and tablespaces. Each database has an owner and a default tablespace; a role can be granted permission to access or can own several databases. The settings can be used to control the behavior of the PostgreSQL server on several levels, such as database and session. Finally, a database can use several programming languages:

PostgreSQL main components conceptual relations

In order to create a database, one needs to specify the owner and the encoding of the database; if the encoding of template1 does not match the required encoding, template0 should be used explicitly.

For the car web high level objects interaction portal database, let us assume that the database owner is the car_portal_role role, and encoding is UTF8. In order to create this database, one can execute the following commands:

CREATE ROLE car_portal_role LOGIN;
CREATE DATABASE car_portal ENCODING 'UTF...
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