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Basic PostgreSQL 16 Backend Development
About the course
Duration: 4 days
Prerequisites:
- SQL fundamentals
- experience with any procedural programming language
- basic knowledge of Unix OS
Skills to be gained:
- general information about PostgreSQL architecture
- working with the main database objects: tables, indexes, views
- programming in SQL and PL/pgSQL on the server side
- using the main data types, including records and arrays
- setting up client-server communication
Student guide
When using the course for self-study, check out the Student’s Guide to learn how to set up the virtual machine and do practical tasks.
Topics
| Introduction | course materials | ||
| Basic Tools | |||
| 1. | Installation and Management, psql | course materials | |
| Architecture | |||
| 2. | PostgreSQL Fundamentals | course materials | |
| 3. | Isolation and MVCC | course materials | |
| 4. | Buffer Cache and WAL | course materials | |
| Data Organization | |||
| 5. | Logical Structure | course materials | |
| 6. | Physical Structure | course materials | |
| The Bookstore App | |||
| 7. | Data Schema and API | course materials | |
| SQL | |||
| 8. | Functions | course materials | |
| 9. | Procedures | course materials | |
| 10. | Composite Types | course materials | |
| PL/pgSQL | |||
| 11. | Overview and Programming Structures | course materials | |
| 12. | Query Execution | course materials | |
| 13. | Cursors | course materials | |
| 14. | Dynamic Commands | course materials | |
| 15. | Arrays | course materials | |
| 16. | Error Handling | course materials | |
| 17. | Triggers | course materials | |
| 18. | Debugging | course materials | |
| Access Control | |||
| 19. | Access Control Overview | course materials | |
| Backup | |||
| 20. | Logical Backup | course materials |
You can download all course materials in a single archive.
Key changes compared to the previous version:
- New features introduced in versions 13, 14, 15, and 16 have been incorporated.
- Some lessons have been revised, though overall the course content remains largely unchanged.
Basic Backend Development for PostgreSQL 12
About the course
Duration: 4 days
Prerequisites:
- SQL fundamentals
- experience with any procedural programming language
- basic knowledge of Unix OS
Skills to be gained:
- general information about PostgreSQL architecture
- working with the main database objects: tables, indexes, views
- programming in SQL and PL/pgSQL on the server side
- using the main data types, including records and arrays
- setting up client-server communication
Student guide
When using the course for self-study, check out the Student’s Guide to learn how to set up the virtual machine and do practical assignments.
Topics
| Introduction | course materials | ||
| Basic tools | |||
| 1. | Installation and management; psql | course materials | |
| Architecture | |||
| 2. | A general overview of PostgreSQL | course materials | |
| 3. | Isolation and MVCC | course materials | |
| 4. | Buffer cache and WAL | course materials | |
| Data organization | |||
| 5. | Logical structure | course materials | |
| 6. | Physical structure | course materials | |
| Bookstore application | |||
| 7. | Application schema and interface | course materials | |
| SQL | |||
| 8. | Functions | course materials | |
| 9. | Procedures | course materials | |
| 10. | Composite types | course materials | |
| PL/pgSQL | |||
| 11. | Overview and programming structures | course materials | |
| 12. | Executing queries | course materials | |
| 13. | Cursors | course materials | |
| 14. | Dynamic commands | course materials | |
| 15. | Arrays | course materials | |
| 16. | Error handling | course materials | |
| 17. | Triggers | course materials | |
| 18. | Debugging | course materials | |
| Access control | |||
| 19. | Access control overview | course materials | |
| Backup | |||
| 20. | Logical backup | course materials |
You can download all course materials in a single archive.