Postgres-XC 1.2.1 Documentation

The Postgres-XC Development Group

Copyright © 1996-2014 The PostgreSQL Global Development Group

Copyright © 2009-2014 Postgres-XC Development Group

Table of Contents

What is Postgres-XC?
A Brief History of PostgreSQL
Conventions
Further Information
Bug Reporting Guidelines

I. Tutorial

1. Getting Started
2. The SQL Language
3. Advanced Features

II. The SQL Language

4. SQL Syntax
5. Data Definition
6. Data Manipulation
7. Queries
8. Data Types
9. Functions and Operators
10. Type Conversion
11. Indexes
12. Full Text Search
13. Concurrency Control
14. Performance Tips

III. Server Administration

15. Installation from Source Code
16. Server Setup and Operation
17. Coordinator and Datanode Configuration
18. Client Authentication
19. Database Roles
20. Managing Databases
21. Localization
22. Routine Database Maintenance Tasks
23. Backup and Restore
24. High Availability, Load Balancing, and Replication
25. Recovery Configuration
26. Monitoring Database Activity
27. Monitoring Disk Usage
28. Reliability and the Write-Ahead Log
29. Regression Tests

IV. Client Interfaces

30. libpq - C Library
31. Large Objects
32. ECPG - Embedded SQL in C
33. The Information Schema

V. Server Programming

34. Extending SQL
35. Triggers
36. Event Triggers
37. The Rule System
38. Procedural Languages
39. PL/pgSQL - SQL Procedural Language
40. PL/Tcl - Tcl Procedural Language
41. PL/Perl - Perl Procedural Language
42. PL/Python - Python Procedural Language
43. Server Programming Interface
44. Background Worker Processes

VI. Reference

I. SQL Commands
II. Postgres-XC Client Applications
III. Postgres-XC Server Applications

VII. Internals

45. Overview of PostgreSQL Internals
46. Overview of Postgres-XC Internals
47. System Catalogs
48. Frontend/Backend Protocol
49. Postgres-XC Coding Conventions
50. Native Language Support
51. Writing A Procedural Language Handler
52. Writing A Foreign Data Wrapper
53. Genetic Query Optimizer
54. Index Access Method Interface Definition
55. GiST Indexes
56. SP-GiST Indexes
57. GIN Indexes
58. Database Physical Storage
59. BKI Backend Interface
60. How the Planner Uses Statistics

VIII. Appendixes

A. PostgreSQL Error Codes
B. Date/Time Support
C. SQL Key Words
D. SQL Conformance
E. Release Notes
F. Additional Supplied Modules
G. Additional Supplied Programs
H. External Projects
I. The Source Code Repository
J. Documentation
K. Acronyms

Bibliography

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