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What Is Postgresql?

PostgreSQL is an object-relational database management system descended from POSTGRES at UC Berkeley. It was developed in the late 1980s and aims to be a fully-featured database that supports advanced features like stored procedures and foreign keys. In contrast, MySQL was developed initially to be a fast database and has more basic functionality, but is faster for simple queries. Both support transactions and referential integrity, but PostgreSQL has more advanced options and platforms while MySQL works better on Windows.

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What Is Postgresql?

PostgreSQL is an object-relational database management system descended from POSTGRES at UC Berkeley. It was developed in the late 1980s and aims to be a fully-featured database that supports advanced features like stored procedures and foreign keys. In contrast, MySQL was developed initially to be a fast database and has more basic functionality, but is faster for simple queries. Both support transactions and referential integrity, but PostgreSQL has more advanced options and platforms while MySQL works better on Windows.

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What is PostgreSQL?

Object-relational database management system (ORDBMS) Based on POSTGRES at Berkeley Computer Science Department.

Sponsored by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the Army Research Office (ARO), the National Science Foundation (NSF), and ESL, Inc.
Implementation of POSTGRES began in 1986. It used a query language based on QUEL, called POST-QUEL

PostgreSQL

MySQL

Aimed to be a fullyfeatured database Understands a good subset of SQL92/99 dialects Rules, triggers, server-side functions can be written in C, PgSQL, Python, Perl and TCL

Aimed first to be a fast database Uses SQL92 as its foundation Has simple mechanism for server-side libraries with C function and rudimentary support for triggers

PostgreSQL

MySQL

Supports subqueries, stored procedures, subqueries, cursors or views Supports referential integrity, has transactions and rollbacks, foreign keys ON DELETE CASCADE and ON UPDATE CASCADE

Does not support subqueries, stored procedures, subqueries, cursors or views Has basic provisions for referential integrity and transactions/rollbacks

PostgreSQL

MySQL

Doesn't have binary distribution for all the support platforms Slower on low-end but has some options for improving

Works better on Windows Fast on both simple and complex SELECTs

Roles and Databases

Roles and Databases

#!/bin/bash for student in $@ do echo "CREATE ROLE $student WITH LOGIN;" | psql echo "CREATE DATABASE $student with OWNER $student;" | psql done

Creation Alternatives

createdb

psql --command //can't mix of psql and sql


psql --file psql < filename

Other Command Line Options

--hostname

--username
--password //force password prompt psql database username //default

Environment Variables

PGDATABASE

PGHOST
PGPORT PGUSER

Useful Commands

\connect

\d [ pattern ] //list table, view, index, or sequence


\dn [ pattern ] //list schemas \du [ pattern ] //list all roles \i filename //excute from file

\l //list databases

Useful Commands

\o [ {filename | |command} ] //Saves future query results to the file filename, standard output or pipes result to the Unix command \s [ filename ] //Saves the history to file or to standard output \set [ name [ value [ ... ] ] ] //Defines a variable \! [ command ] //Executes command on a Unix shell \? //Help

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Sources

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.1

psql man page


Google "Postgres versus MySQL"

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