PostgreSQL Server Programming: Extend PostgreSQL using PostgreSQL server programming to create, test, debug, and optimize a range of user-defined functions in your favorite programming language

Key Features

Book DescriptionThis book is for moderate to advanced PostgreSQL database professionals who wish to extend PostgreSQL, utilizing the most updated features of PostgreSQL 9.4. For a better understanding of this book, familiarity with writing SQL, a basic idea of query tuning, and some coding experience in your preferred language is expected.What you will learn

• Write functions in the builtin PL/pgSQL language or your language of choice
• Define and use userdefined functions (UDF)
• Scale your data with PL/Proxy
• Extend PostgreSQL to overcome the limitations of classical SQL servers
• Debug using NOTIFY and using PL/pgSQL debugging extensions
• Discover the new features in PostgreSQL 9.4 such as event triggers and other improvements relevant to serverside programming
• Fully integrate the database layer into your development

Who this book is for

This book is for moderate to advanced PostgreSQL database professionals who wish to extend PostgreSQL, utilizing the most updated features of PostgreSQL 9.4. For a better understanding of this book, familiarity with writing SQL, a basic idea of query tuning, and some coding experience in your preferred language is expected.