Postgres in Your Pocket

by Anthony Gardner

PostgreSQL, often simply Postgres, is an object-relational database (ORDBMS) - i.e. a RDBMS, with additional (optional use) "object" features - with an emphasis on extensibility and standards-compliance. As a database server, its primary function is to store data securely, and to allow for retrieval at the request of other software applications. It can handle workloads ranging from small single-machine applications to large Internet-facing applications (or for data warehousing) with many concurrent users; on macOS, PostgreSQL is the default database - for web hosting and it is also available for Microsoft Windows and Linux (supplied in most distributions). This updated and expanded second edition of Book provides a user-friendly introduction to the subject, Taking a clear structural framework, it guides the reader through the subject's core elements. A flowing writing style combines with the use of illustrations and diagrams throughout the text to ensure the reader understands even the most complex of concepts. This succinct and enlightening overview is a required reading for all those interested in the subject . We hope you find this book useful in shaping your future career & Business.

Paperback

Published April 23, 2017

About the author

Anthony Gardner spent his early life between in England and Ireland, but has lived in London for most of his adult life. As soon as he started reading books, he wanted to write them - but, realising that this would be a difficult way to earn a living, he embarked on a career in journalism, with his weekends set aside for what he regarded as his real writing. As a magazine journalist he has been deputy editor of Harpers & Queen and editor of the Royal Society of Literature Review, and has written for the Sunday Times Magazine, the Irish Times Magazine and Architectural Digest among many others. His first novel, The Rivers of Heaven, was partly inspired by Wordsworth's Immortality Ode, and involves a newborn child remembering its existence before it arrived on earth. His second, Fox, is very different - a fast-moving satirical thriller about the surveillance society involving unscrupulous politicians and urban foxes