-
+
Functions and Operators
a >= x AND a <= y
- Note BETWEEN is inclusive in comparing the endpoint
- values. NOT BETWEEN does the opposite comparison:
+ Notice that BETWEEN treats the endpoint values as included
+ in the range.
+ NOT BETWEEN does the opposite comparison:
a NOT BETWEEN x AND y
- BETWEEN SYMMETRIC is the same as BETWEEN
- except there is no requirement that the argument to the left of AND be less than
- or equal to the argument on the right; the proper range is automatically determined.
+ BETWEEN SYMMETRIC is the same as BETWEEN
+ except there is no requirement that the argument to the left of
+ AND be less than or equal to the argument on the right.
+ If it is not, those two arguments are automatically swapped, so that
+ a nonempty range is always implied.
- Some applications might expect
+ Some applications might expect that
expression = NULL
returns true if expression evaluates to
the null value. It is highly recommended that these applications
- Ordinary comparison operators yield null (signifying unknown)
- when either input is null, not true or false, e.g., 7 =
- NULL yields null.
- Another way to do comparisons is with the
- IS NOT DISTINCT FROM construct:
+ Ordinary comparison operators yield null (signifying unknown),
+ not true or false, when either input is null. For example,
+ 7 = NULL yields null. When this behavior is not suitable,
+ use the
+ IS NOT DISTINCT FROM constructs:
expression IS DISTINCT FROM expression
expression IS NOT DISTINCT FROM expression
Mathematical operators are provided for many
-
PostgreSQL types. For types
that support
- only limited mathematical operations
+
PostgreSQL types. For types
without
+ standard mathematical conventions
(e.g., date/time types) we
describe the actual behavior in subsequent sections.
-
SQL defines some string functions with a special syntax
- wherein certain key words rather than commas are used to separate the
- arguments. Details are in .
- These functions are also implemented using the regular syntax for
- function invocation. (See .)
+
SQL defines some string functions that use
+ key words, rather than commas, to separate
+ arguments. Details are in
+ .
+
PostgreSQL also provides versions of these functions+ that use the regular function invocation syntax
+ (see ).
The conversion names follow a standard naming scheme: The
official name of the source encoding with all
- non-alphanumeric characters replaced by underscores followed
- by _to_ followed by similarly
+ non-alphanumeric characters replaced by underscores, followed
+ by _to_, followed by the similarly processed
destination encoding name. Therefore, the names might deviate
from the customary encoding names.
SQL defines some string functions that use
- a key word syntax, rather than commas to separate
+ key words, rather than commas, to separate
arguments. Details are in
.
- Such functions are also implemented using the regular syntax for
- function invocation.
- (See .)
+
PostgreSQL also provides versions of these functions+ that use the regular function invocation syntax
+ (see ).
- The LIKE expression returns true if
+ The LIKE expression returns true if the
string matches the supplied
pattern. (As
expected, the NOT LIKE expression returns
If pattern does not contain percent
- signs or underscore, then the pattern only represents the string
+ signs or underscores, then the pattern only represents the string
itself; in that case LIKE acts like the
equals operator. An underscore (_) in
pattern stands for (matches) any single
- character; a percent sign (%) matches any string
+ character; a percent sign (%) matches any sequence
of zero or more characters.
'abc' LIKE 'c' false
-
+
LIKE pattern matching always covers the entire
string. Therefore, to match a sequence anywhere within a string, the
- To match only a literal underscore or percent sign without matching
+ To match a literal underscore or percent sign without matching
other characters, the respective character in
- pattern must be
+ pattern must be
preceded by the escape character. The default escape
character is the backslash but a different one can be selected by
using the ESCAPE clause. To match the escape
actually matches a literal backslash means writing four backslashes in the
statement. You can avoid this by selecting a different escape character
with ESCAPE; then a backslash is not special to
- LIKE anymore. (But backslash is still special to the string
- literal parser, so you still need two of them.)
+ LIKE anymore. (But backslash is still special to the
+ string literal parser, so you still need two of them to match a backslash.)
- Notice that bounded repetition (? and {...})
- is not provided, though they exist in POSIX. Also, the period (.)
- is not a metacharacter.
+ Notice that bounded repetition operators (? and
+ {...}) are not provided, though they exist in POSIX.
+ Also, the period (.) is not a metacharacter.
expression. As with LIKE, pattern characters
match string characters exactly unless they are special characters
in the regular expression language — but regular expressions use
- different special characters than LIKE.
+ different special characters than LIKE does.
Unlike LIKE patterns, a
regular expression is allowed to match anywhere within a string, unless
the regular expression is explicitly anchored to the beginning or
A branch is zero or more quantified atoms or
constraints, concatenated.
- It tries a match of the first, followed by a match for the second, etc;
+ It matches a match for the first, followed by a match for the second, etc;
an empty branch matches the empty string.
A constraint matches an empty string, but matches only when
- specific conditions are met. A constraint cannot be followed by a quantifier.
+ specific conditions are met. A constraint can be used where an atom
+ could be used, except it cannot be followed by a quantifier.
The simple constraints are shown in
;
some more constraints are described later.
|
^
- matches the beginning of the string
+ matches at the beginning of the string
|
$
- matches the end of the string
+ matches at the end of the string
|
To include a literal ] in the list, make it the
- first character (possibly following a ^). To
+ first character (after ^, if that is used). To
include a literal -, make it the first or last
character, or the second endpoint of a range. To use a literal
- - as the start of a range, enclose it
+ - as the first endpoint of a range, enclose it
in [. and .] to make it a
- collating element (see below). With the exception of these characters and
+ collating element (see below). With the exception of these characters,
some combinations using [
(see next paragraphs), and escapes (AREs only), all other special
characters lose their special significance within a bracket expression.
Character-entry escapes exist to make it easier to specify
- non-printing and inconvenient characters in REs. They are
+ non-printing and other inconvenient characters in REs. They are
shown in .
\uwxyz
(where wxyz is exactly four hexadecimal digits)
the UTF16 (Unicode, 16-bit) character U+wxyz
- in the local byte encoding
+ in the local byte ordering
|
(where stuvwxyz is exactly eight hexadecimal
digits)
reserved for a hypothetical Unicode extension to 32 bits
-
+
|
|
- \x###
- (where ### is any sequence of hexadecimal
+ \xhhh
+ (where hhh is any sequence of hexadecimal
digits)
the character whose hexadecimal value is
- 0x###
+ 0xhhh
(a single character no matter how many hexadecimal digits are used)
|
- \##
- (where ## is exactly two octal digits,
+ \xy
+ (where xy is exactly two octal digits,
and is not a back reference)
the character whose octal value is
- 0##
+ 0xy
|
- \###
- (where ### is exactly three octal digits,
+ \xyz
+ (where xyz is exactly three octal digits,
and is not a back reference)
the character whose octal value is
- 0###
+ 0xyz
There is an inherent ambiguity between octal character-entry
- escapes and back references, which is resolved by heuristics,
+ escapes and back references, which is resolved by the following heuristics,
as hinted at above.
A leading zero always indicates an octal escape.
A single non-zero digit, not followed by another digit,
is always taken as a back reference.
- A multidigit sequence not starting with a zero is taken as a back
+ A multi-digit sequence not starting with a zero is taken as a back
reference if it comes after a suitable subexpression
(i.e., the number is in the legal range for a back reference),
and otherwise is taken as octal.
double precision argument and converts from Unix epoch
(seconds since 1970-01-01 00:00:00+00) to
timestamp with time zone.
- (Integer Unix epochs are implicitly cast to
+ (Integer Unix epochs are implicitly cast to
double precision.)
|
to_timestamp(double precision)
timestamp with time zone
- convert UNIX epoch to time stamp
+ convert Unix epoch to time stamp
to_timestamp(1284352323)
- In a to_char output template string, there are certain patterns that are
- recognized and replaced with appropriately-formatted data based on the value.
- Any text that is not a template pattern is simply
- copied verbatim. Similarly, in an input template string (anything but to_char), template patterns
- identify the values to be supplied by the input data string.
+ In a to_char output template string, there are certain
+ patterns that are recognized and replaced with appropriately-formatted
+ data based on the given value. Any text that is not a template pattern is
+ simply copied verbatim. Similarly, in an input template string (for the
+ other functions), template patterns identify the values to be supplied by
+ the input data string.
|
RM
- uppercase month in Roman numerals (I-XII; I=January)
+ month in uppercase Roman numerals (I-XII; I=January)
|
rm
- lowercase month in Roman numerals (i-xii; i=January)
+ month in lowercase Roman numerals (i-xii; i=January)
|
TZ
|
FM prefix
- fill mode (suppress padding of blanks and zeroes)
+ fill mode (suppress padding blanks and zeroes)
FMMonth
|
|
SP suffix
- spell mode (not supported)
+ spell mode (not implemented)
DDSP
to_timestamp and to_date
- skip multiple blank spaces in the input string unless the FX option
- is used. For example,
+ skip multiple blank spaces in the input string unless the
+ FX option is used. For example,
to_timestamp('2000 JUN', 'YYYY MON') works, but
to_timestamp('2000 JUN', 'FXYYYY MON') returns an error
because to_timestamp expects one space only.
In conversions from string to timestamp or
- date, the CC field (century) is ignored if there
- is a YYY, YYYY or
+ date, the CC (century) field is ignored
+ if there is a YYY, YYYY or
Y,YYY field. If CC is used with
YY or Y then the year is computed
as (CC-1)*100+YY.
In a conversion from string to timestamp, millisecond
- (MS) and microsecond (US)
+ (MS) or microsecond (US)
values are used as the
seconds digits after the decimal point. For example
to_timestamp('12:3', 'SS:MS') is not 3 milliseconds,
-
to_char(interval) formats HH and + to_char(interval) formats HH and
HH12 as hours in a single day, while HH24
can output hours exceeding a single day, e.g., >24.
multiplies the input values by
10^n, where
n is the number of digits following
- V.
+ V.
to_char does not support the use of
- V with non-integer values.
- (e.g., 99.9V99 is not allowed.)
+ V combined with a decimal point
+ (e.g., 99.9V99 is not allowed).
-
+
Certain modifiers can be applied to any template pattern to alter its
century
- The century:
+ The century
For date and timestamp values, the
- number of seconds since 1970-01-01 00:00:00-00 GMT (can be negative);
+ number of seconds since 1970-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (can be negative);
for interval values, the total number
of seconds in the interval
+ transaction_timestamp() is equivalent to
+ CURRENT_TIMESTAMP, but is named to clearly reflect
+ what it returns.
statement_timestamp() returns the start time of the current
statement (more specifically, the time of receipt of the latest command
message from the client).
but as a formatted text string rather than a timestamp
with time zone value.
now() is a traditional PostgreSQL
- equivalent to CURRENT_TIMESTAMP.
- transaction_timestamp() is likewise equivalent to
- CURRENT_TIMESTAMP, but is named to clearly reflect
- what it returns.
+ equivalent to transaction_timestamp().
It is possible to access the two component numbers of a point
- as though they were an array with indices 0 and 1. For example, if
+ as though the point were an array with indexes 0 and 1. For example, if
t.p is a point column then
SELECT p[0] FROM t retrieves the X coordinate and
UPDATE t SET p[1] = ... changes the Y coordinate.
Element content, if specified, will be formatted according to
- the data type. If the content is itself of type xml,
+ its data type. If the content is itself of type xml,
complex XML documents can be constructed. For example:
SELECT xmlelement(name foo, xmlattributes('xyz' as bar),
The xmlroot expression alters the properties
of the root node of an XML value. If a version is specified,
- this replaces the value in the version declaration; if a
- standalone value is specified, this replaces the value in the
- standalone declaration.
+ it replaces the value in the root node's version declaration; if a
+ standalone setting is specified, it replaces the value in the
+ root node's standalone declaration.
If a sequence object has been created with default parameters,
- nextval will return successive values
+ successive nextval calls will return successive values
beginning with 1. Other behaviors can be obtained by using
special parameters in the command;
see its command reference page for more information.
CASE clauses can be used wherever
- an expression is valid. condition is an
- expression that returns a boolean result. If the result is true
- the value of the CASE expression is the
- result that follows the condition. If the result is false
- subsequent WHEN clauses are searched in the same
- manner. If no WHEN
- condition is true then the value of the
- case expression is the result of the
+ an expression is valid. Each condition is an
+ expression that returns a boolean result. If the condition's
+ result is true, the value of the CASE expression is the
+ result that follows the condition, and the
+ remainder of the CASE expression is not processed. If the
+ condition's result is not true, any subsequent WHEN clauses
+ are examined in the same manner. If no WHEN
+ condition yields true, the value of the
+ CASE expression is the result of the
ELSE clause. If the ELSE clause is
- omitted and no condition matches, the result is null.
+ omitted and no condition is true, the result is null.
- The following CASE expression is a
- variant of the general form above:
+ There is a simple form of CASE expression
+ that is a variant of the general form above:
CASE expression
END
- The
- expression is computed and compared to
- all the values in the
- WHEN clauses until one is found that is equal. If
+ The first
+ expression is computed, then compared to
+ each of the value expressions in the
+ WHEN clauses until one is found that is equal to it. If
no match is found, the result of the
ELSE clause (or a null value) is returned. This is similar
to the switch statement in C.
- A CASE expression evaluates any subexpressions
- that are needed to determine the result. For example, this is a
+ A CASE expression does not evaluate any subexpressions
+ that are not needed to determine the result. For example, this is a
possible way of avoiding a division-by-zero failure:
SELECT ... WHERE CASE WHEN x <> 0 THEN y/x > 1.5 ELSE false END;
Like a CASE expression, COALESCE only
- evaluates arguments that are needed to determine the result;
+ evaluates the arguments that are needed to determine the result;
that is, arguments to the right of the first non-null argument are
not evaluated. This SQL-standard function provides capabilities similar
to NVL and IFNULL, which are used in some other
- Boolean aggregates bool_and and
+ Boolean aggregates bool_and and
bool_or correspond to standard SQL aggregates
every and any or
- some.
- As for any and some,
+ some.
+ As for any and some,
it seems that there is an ambiguity built into the standard syntax:
SELECT b1 = ANY((SELECT b2 FROM t2 ...)) FROM t1 ...;
- Here ANY can be considered as leading either
- to a subquery or to an aggregate, if the select expression returns one row.
+ Here ANY can be considered either as introducing
+ a subquery, or as being an aggregate function, if the sub-select
+ returns one row with a boolean value.
Thus the standard name cannot be given to these aggregates.
SELECT count(*) FROM sometable;
will be executed by
PostgreSQL using a
- sequential scan of an entire table.
+ sequential scan of the entire table.
or subquery. The
subquery is evaluated to determine whether it returns any rows.
If it returns at least one row, the result of EXISTS is
- true; if the subquery returns no rows, the result of EXISTS
+ true; if the subquery returns no rows, the result of EXISTS
is false.
The forms involving array subexpressions are
PostgreSQL extensions; the rest are
- All of the expressions documented in this section return
+ All of the expression forms documented in this section return
Boolean (true/false) results.
pg_my_temp_schema returns the OID of the current
- session's temporary schema, or 0 if it has none (because no
- temporary tables have been created).
+ session's temporary schema, or zero if it has none (because it has not
+ created any temporary tables).
pg_is_other_temp_schema returns true if the
given OID is the OID of another session's temporary schema.
(This can be useful, for example, to exclude other sessions' temporary
has_any_column_privilege checks whether a user can
- access any column of a table in a particular way; its argument possibilities
+ access any column of a table in a particular way.
+ Its argument possibilities
are analogous to has_table_privilege,
except that the desired access privilege type must evaluate to some
combination of
has_column_privilege checks whether a user
- can access a column in a particular way; its argument possibilities
+ can access a column in a particular way.
+ Its argument possibilities
are analogous to has_table_privilege,
with the addition that the column can be specified either by name
or attribute number.
has_database_privilege checks whether a user
- can access a database in a particular way; its argument possibilities
+ can access a database in a particular way.
+ Its argument possibilities
are analogous to has_table_privilege.
The desired access privilege type must evaluate to some combination of
CREATE,
has_function_privilege checks whether a user
- can access a function in a particular way; its argument possibilities
+ can access a function in a particular way.
+ Its argument possibilities
are analogous to has_table_privilege.
When specifying a function by a text string rather than by OID,
the allowed input is the same as for the regprocedure data type
has_foreign_data_wrapper_privilege checks whether a user
- can access a foreign-data wrapper in a particular way; its argument possibilities
+ can access a foreign-data wrapper in a particular way.
+ Its argument possibilities
are analogous to has_table_privilege.
The desired access privilege type must evaluate to
USAGE.
has_language_privilege checks whether a user
- can access a procedural language in a particular way; its argument possibilities
+ can access a procedural language in a particular way.
+ Its argument possibilities
are analogous to has_table_privilege.
The desired access privilege type must evaluate to
USAGE.
has_schema_privilege checks whether a user
- can access a schema in a particular way; its argument possibilities
+ can access a schema in a particular way.
+ Its argument possibilities
are analogous to has_table_privilege.
The desired access privilege type must evaluate to some combination of
CREATE or
has_server_privilege checks whether a user
- can access a foreign server in a particular way; its argument possibilities
+ can access a foreign server in a particular way.
+ Its argument possibilities
are analogous to has_table_privilege.
The desired access privilege type must evaluate to
USAGE.
has_tablespace_privilege checks whether a user
- can access a tablespace in a particular way; its argument possibilities
+ can access a tablespace in a particular way.
+ Its argument possibilities
are analogous to has_table_privilege.
The desired access privilege type must evaluate to
CREATE.
pg_has_role checks whether a user
- can access a role in a particular way; its argument possibilities
+ can access a role in a particular way.
+ Its argument possibilities
are analogous to has_table_privilege.
The desired access privilege type must evaluate to some combination of
MEMBER or
get CREATE [ CONSTRAINT ] TRIGGER command for trigger
|
-
pg_get_userbyid(roleid)+
pg_get_userbyid(role_oid) name
get role name with given OID
The functions shown in
- export server transaction information. The main
+ provide server transaction information in an exportable form. The main
use of these functions is to determine which transactions were committed
between two snapshots.
|
xmax
- First as-yet-unassigned txid. All txids later than this are
- not yet started as of the time of the snapshot, and thus invisible.
+ First as-yet-unassigned txid. All txids greater than or equal to this
+ are not yet started as of the time of the snapshot, and thus invisible.
Active txids at the time of the snapshot. The list
includes only those active txids between xmin
and xmax; there might be active txids higher
- than xmax. A txid that is xmin <= txid <
+ than xmax. A txid that is xmin <= txid <
xmax and not in this list was already completed
at the time of the snapshot, and thus either visible or
dead according to its commit status. The list does not
The process ID of an active backend can be found from
the procpid column of the
pg_stat_activity view, or by listing the
- postgres processes on the server using
+ postgres processes on the server (using
pg_stop_backup()
text
- Finalize after performing on-line backup
+ Finish performing on-line backup
|
pg_current_xlog_location displays the current transaction log write
- location in the format used by the above functions. Similarly,
+ location in the same format used by the above functions. Similarly,
pg_current_xlog_insert_location displays the current transaction log
insertion point. The insertion point is the logical end
of the transaction log
bigint
- Disk space used by the specified fork, 'main' or
- 'fsm', of a table or index with the specified OID
- or name; the table name can be schema-qualified.
+ Disk space used by the specified fork ('main',
+ 'fsm' or 'vm')
+ of the table or index with the specified OID or name
|
bigint
Total disk space used by the table with the specified OID or name,
- including indexes and
TOAST data; the table name can be- schema-qualified.
+ including indexes and
TOAST data
size of the main data fork of the relation. Specifying
'fsm' returns the size of the
Free Space Map (see ) associated with the
+ relation. Specifying 'vm' returns the size of the
+ Visibility Map (see ) associated with the
relation.
size, last accessed time stamp, last modified time stamp,
last file status change time stamp (Unix platforms only),
file creation time stamp (Windows only), and a boolean
- indicating if it is a directory. Typical usage include:
+ indicating if it is a directory. Typical usages include:
SELECT * FROM pg_stat_file('filename');
SELECT (pg_stat_file('filename')).modification;
pg_advisory_unlock_shared works the same as
- pg_advisory_unlock,
- except is releases a shared advisory lock.
+ pg_advisory_unlock,
+ except it releases a shared advisory lock.
pg_advisory_unlock_all will release all advisory locks
held by the current session. (This function is implicitly invoked
- at session end, even if the client disconnects abruptly.)
+ at session end, even if the client disconnects ungracefully.)
-
+
Indexes
matching entries. If there are many rows in
test1 and only a few rows (perhaps zero
or one) that would be returned by such a query, this is clearly an
- inefficient method. But if the system maintains an
+ inefficient method. But if the system has been instructed to maintain an
index on the id column, it can use a more
efficient method for locating matching rows. For instance, it
might only have to walk a few levels deep into a search tree.
Once an index is created, no further intervention is required: the
system will update the index when the table is modified, and it will
- use the index in queries when it thinks it would be more efficient
+ use the index in queries when it thinks doing so would be more efficient
than a sequential table scan. But you might have to run the
ANALYZE command regularly to update
statistics to allow the query planner to make educated decisions.
SELECT name FROM test2 WHERE major = constant AND minor = constant;
- then it might be appropriate to define an index on columns
+ then it might be appropriate to define an index on the columns
major and
minor together, e.g.:
The planner will consider satisfying an ORDER BY specification
- by either scanning an available index that matches the specification,
+ either by scanning an available index that matches the specification,
or by scanning the table in physical order and doing an explicit
sort. For a query that requires scanning a large fraction of the
- table, the explicit sort is likely to be faster than using an index
+ table, an explicit sort is likely to be faster than using an index
because it requires
- less disk I/O due to a sequential access pattern. Indexes are
+ less disk I/O due to following a sequential access pattern. Indexes are
more useful when only a few rows need be fetched. An important
special case is ORDER BY in combination with
LIMIT n: an explicit sort will have to process
- all data to identify the first n rows, but if there is
+ all the data to identify the first n rows, but if there is
an index matching the ORDER BY, the first n
rows can be retrieved directly, without scanning the remainder at all.
ORDER BY x DESC, y DESC if we scan backward.
But it might be that the application frequently needs to use
ORDER BY x ASC, y DESC. There is no way to get that
- ordering from a simpler index, but it is possible if the index is defined
+ ordering from a plain index, but it is possible if the index is defined
as (x ASC, y DESC) or (x DESC, y ASC).
Obviously, indexes with non-default sort orderings are a fairly
specialized feature, but sometimes they can produce tremendous
- speedups for certain queries. Whether it's worth creating such an
+ speedups for certain queries. Whether it's worth maintaining such an
index depends on how often you use queries that require a special
sort ordering.
- An index column need not be just a column of an underlying table,
+ An index column need not be just a column of the underlying table,
but can be a function or scalar expression computed from one or
- more columns of a table. This feature is useful to obtain fast
+ more columns of the table. This feature is useful to obtain fast
access to tables based on the results of computations.
values. Since a query searching for a common value (one that
accounts for more than a few percent of all the table rows) will not
use the index anyway, there is no point in keeping those rows in the
- index. A partial index reduces the size of the index, which speeds
- up queries that use the index. It will also speed up many table
+ index at all. This reduces the size of the index, which will speed
+ up those queries that do use the index. It will also speed up many table
update operations because the index does not need to be
updated in all cases. shows a
possible application of this idea.
such as this:
CREATE INDEX access_log_client_ip_ix ON access_log (client_ip)
-WHERE NOT (client_ip > inet '192.168.100.0' AND
+WHERE NOT (client_ip > inet '192.168.100.0' AND
client_ip < inet '192.168.100.255');
Observe that this kind of partial index requires that the common
values be predetermined, so such partial indexes are best used for
- data distribution that do not change. The indexes can be recreated
+ data distributions that do not change. The indexes can be recreated
occasionally to adjust for new data distributions, but this adds
- maintenance overhead.
+ maintenance effort.
- Another possible use for partial indexes is to exclude values from the
+ Another possible use for a partial index is to exclude values from the
index that the
typical query workload is not interested in; this is shown in
linkend="indexes-partial-ex2">. This results in the same
-
+
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<div class="diff rem">- You need an <acronym>ISO</>/<acronym>ANSI</> C compiler (<span class="marked">minimum</span></div>
<div class="diff add">+ You need an <acronym>ISO</>/<acronym>ANSI</> C compiler (<span class="marked">at least</span></div>
<div class="diff ctx"> C89-compliant). Recent</div>
<div class="diff ctx"> versions of <productname>GCC</> are recommendable, but</div>
<div class="diff ctx"> <productname>PostgreSQL</> is known to build using a wide variety</div>
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<div class="diff ctx"> command you type, and allows you to use arrow keys to recall and</div>
<div class="diff ctx"> edit previous commands. This is very helpful and is strongly</div>
<div class="diff ctx"> recommended. If you don't want to use it then you must specify</div>
<div class="diff rem">- the <option>--without-readline</option> option <span class="marked">of</span></div>
<div class="diff add">+ the <option>--without-readline</option> option <span class="marked">to</span></div>
<div class="diff ctx"> <filename>configure</>. As an alternative, you can often use the</div>
<div class="diff ctx"> BSD-licensed <filename>libedit</filename> library, originally</div>
<div class="diff ctx"> developed on <productname>NetBSD</productname>. The</div>
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<div class="diff ctx"> On systems that have <productname>PostgreSQL</> started at boot time,</div>
<div class="diff ctx"> there is probably a start-up file that will accomplish the same thing. For</div>
<div class="diff ctx"> example, on a <systemitem class="osname">Red Hat Linux</> system one</div>
<div class="diff rem">- might find that:</div>
<div class="diff add">+ might find that<span class="marked"> this works</span>:</div>
<div class="diff ctx"> <screen></div>
<div class="diff ctx"> <userinput>/etc/rc.d/init.d/postgresql stop</userinput></div>
<div class="diff ctx"> </screen></div>
<div class="diff rem">- works.</div>
<div class="diff ctx"> </para></div>
<div class="diff ctx"> </step></div>
<div class="diff ctx"> </div>
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<div class="diff ctx"> </div>
<div class="diff ctx"> <step></div>
<div class="diff ctx"> <para></div>
<div class="diff rem">- Start the database server, again the special database user</div>
<div class="diff add">+ Start the database server, again <span class="marked">using </span>the special database user</div>
<div class="diff ctx"> account:</div>
<div class="diff ctx"> <programlisting></div>
<div class="diff ctx"> <userinput>/usr/local/pgsql/bin/postgres -D /usr/local/pgsql/data</></div>
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<div class="diff ctx"> later on. To reset the source tree to the state in which it was</div>
<div class="diff ctx"> distributed, use <command>gmake distclean</>. If you are going to</div>
<div class="diff ctx"> build for several platforms within the same source tree you must do</div>
<div class="diff rem">- this and re<span class="marked">build</span> for each platform. (Alternatively, use</div>
<div class="diff add">+ this and re<span class="marked">-configure</span> for each platform. (Alternatively, use</div>
<div class="diff ctx"> a separate build tree for each platform, so that the source tree</div>
<div class="diff ctx"> remains unmodified.)</div>
<div class="diff ctx"> </para></div>
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<div class="diff ctx"> </indexterm></div>
<div class="diff ctx"> </div>
<div class="diff ctx"> <para></div>
<div class="diff rem">- On s<span class="marked">everal</span> systems with shared libraries</div>
<div class="diff add">+ On s<span class="marked">ome</span> systems with shared libraries</div>
<div class="diff ctx"> you need to tell the system how to find the newly installed</div>
<div class="diff ctx"> shared libraries. The systems on which this is</div>
<div class="diff ctx"> <emphasis>not</emphasis> necessary include <systemitem</div>
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<div class="diff ctx"> <chapter id="monitoring"></div>
<div class="diff ctx"> <title>Monitoring Database Activity
read() calls issued for the table, index, or
database; the number of actual physical reads is usually
lower due to kernel-level buffering. The *_blks_read
- statistics columns uses this subtraction, i.e., fetched minus hit.
+ statistics columns use this subtraction, i.e., fetched minus hit.
-
+
Concurrency Control
committed before the query began; it never sees either uncommitted
data or changes committed during query execution by concurrent
transactions. In effect, a SELECT query sees
- a snapshot of the database at the instant the query begins to
+ a snapshot of the database as of the instant the query begins to
run. However, SELECT does see the effects
of previous updates executed within its own transaction, even
though they are not yet committed. Also note that two successive
FOR UPDATE, and SELECT FOR SHARE commands
behave the same as SELECT
in terms of searching for target rows: they will only find target rows
- that were committed before the command start time. However, such a target
+ that were committed as of the command start time. However, such a target
row might have already been updated (or deleted or locked) by
another concurrent transaction by the time it is found. In this case, the
would-be updater will wait for the first updating transaction to commit or
transaction began; it never sees either uncommitted data or changes
committed
during transaction execution by concurrent transactions. (However,
- SELECT does see the effects of previous updates
+ the query does see the effects of previous updates
executed within its own transaction, even though they are not yet
committed.) This is different from Read Committed in that
- SELECT in a serializable transaction
- sees a snapshot as of the start of the transaction, not as of the start
+ a query in a serializable transaction
+ sees a snapshot as of the start of the transaction,
+ not as of the start
of the current query within the transaction. Thus, successive
SELECT commands within a single
- transaction see the same data, i.e. they never see changes made by
- transactions that committed after its own transaction started. (This
- behavior can be ideal for reporting applications.)
+ transaction see the same data, i.e., they do not see changes made by
+ other transactions that committed after their own transaction started.
+ (This behavior can be ideal for reporting applications.)
FOR UPDATE, and SELECT FOR SHARE commands
behave the same as SELECT
in terms of searching for target rows: they will only find target rows
- that were committed before the transaction start time. However, such a
+ that were committed as of the transaction start time. However, such a
target
row might have already been updated (or deleted or locked) by
another concurrent transaction by the time it is found. In this case, the
- Conflicts all lock modes except ACCESS SHARE,
- ROW SHARE, and SHARE (it
- does not conflict with itself).
+ Conflicts with the ROW EXCLUSIVE,
+ SHARE UPDATE EXCLUSIVE, SHARE ROW
+ EXCLUSIVE, EXCLUSIVE, and
+ ACCESS EXCLUSIVE lock modes.
This mode protects a table against concurrent data changes.
- Conflicts all lock modes except ACCESS SHARE
- and ROW SHARE.
+ Conflicts with the ROW EXCLUSIVE,
+ SHARE UPDATE EXCLUSIVE,
+ SHARE, SHARE ROW
+ EXCLUSIVE, EXCLUSIVE, and
+ ACCESS EXCLUSIVE lock modes.
- Conflicts all lock modes except ACCESS SHARE.
+ Conflicts with the ROW SHARE, ROW
+ EXCLUSIVE, SHARE UPDATE
+ EXCLUSIVE, SHARE, SHARE
+ ROW EXCLUSIVE, EXCLUSIVE, and
+ ACCESS EXCLUSIVE lock modes.
This mode allows only concurrent ACCESS SHARE locks,
i.e., only reads from the table can proceed in parallel with a
transaction holding this lock mode.
This lock mode is not automatically acquired on user tables by any
PostgreSQL command. However it is
- acquired during certain internal system catalogs operations.
+ acquired on certain system catalogs in some operations.
- Conflicts with all lock modes.
+ Conflicts with locks of all modes (ACCESS
+ SHARE, ROW SHARE, ROW
+ EXCLUSIVE, SHARE UPDATE
+ EXCLUSIVE, SHARE, SHARE
+ ROW EXCLUSIVE, EXCLUSIVE, and
+ ACCESS EXCLUSIVE).
This mode guarantees that the
holder is the only transaction accessing the table in any way.
Once acquired, a lock is normally held till end of transaction. But if a
lock is acquired after establishing a savepoint, the lock is released
- immediately if the savepoint is rolled back. This is consistent with
+ immediately if the savepoint is rolled back to. This is consistent with
the principle that ROLLBACK cancels all effects of the
commands since the savepoint. The same holds for locks acquired within a
PL/pgSQL exception block: an error escape from the block
can be exclusive or shared locks. An exclusive row-level lock on a
specific row is automatically acquired when the row is updated or
deleted. The lock is held until the transaction commits or rolls
- back, like table-level locks. Row-level locks do
- not affect data querying; they only block writers to the same
+ back, just like table-level locks. Row-level locks do
+ not affect data querying; they block only writers to the same
row.
used to control read/write access to table pages in the shared buffer
pool. These locks are released immediately after a row is fetched or
updated. Application developers normally need not be concerned with
- page-level locks, but they are mentioned for completeness.
+ page-level locks, but they are mentioned here for completeness.
after the current query began). The row might have been modified or
deleted by an already-committed transaction that committed after
the SELECT started.
- Even if the row is still valid <emphasis>now, it could be changed or
+ Even if the row is still valid <quote>now, it could be changed or
deleted
before the current transaction does a commit or rollback.
concurrent updates one must use SELECT FOR UPDATE,
SELECT FOR SHARE, or an appropriate LOCK
TABLE statement. (SELECT FOR UPDATE
- or SELECT FOR SHARE lock just the
+ and SELECT FOR SHARE lock just the
returned rows against concurrent updates, while LOCK
TABLE locks the whole table.) This should be taken into
account when porting applications to
- Note also that if one is
- relying on explicit locking to prevent concurrent changes, one should use
- either Read Committed mode, or in Serializable mode be careful to obtain
+ Note also that if one is relying on explicit locking to prevent concurrent
+ changes, one should either use Read Committed mode, or in Serializable
+ mode be careful to obtain
locks before performing queries. A lock obtained by a
serializable transaction guarantees that no other transactions modifying
the table are still running, but if the snapshot seen by the
frozen at the start of its first query or data-modification command
(SELECT, INSERT,
UPDATE, or DELETE), so
- it is often desirable to obtain locks explicitly before the snapshot is
+ it is possible to obtain locks explicitly before the snapshot is
frozen.
provides nonblocking read/write access to table
- data, nonblocking read/write access is currently not offered for every
+ data, nonblocking read/write access is not currently offered for every
index access method implemented
The various index types are handled as follows:
Short-term share/exclusive page-level locks are used for
read/write access. Locks are released immediately after each
- index row is fetched or inserted. But note insertion of a GIN-indexed
- value usually produces several index key insertions
+ index row is fetched or inserted. But note that insertion of a
+ GIN-indexed value usually produces several index key insertions
per row, so GIN might do substantial work for a single value's
insertion.
-
+
Performance Tips
table access methods: sequential scans, index scans, and bitmap index
scans. If the query requires joining, aggregation, sorting, or other
operations on the raw rows, then there will be additional nodes
- above the scan nodes to perform these operations. Other nodes types
- are also supported. The output
+ above the scan nodes to perform these operations. Again,
+ there is usually more than one possible way to do these operations,
+ so different node types can appear here too. The output
of EXPLAIN has one line for each node in the plan
tree, showing the basic node type plus the cost estimates that the planner
made for the execution of that plan node. The first line (topmost node)
- Estimated start-up cost, e.g., time expended before the output scan can start,
- time to do the sorting in a sort node
+ Estimated start-up cost (time expended before the output scan can start,
+ e.g., time to do the sorting in a sort node)
- Estimated total cost if all rows were to be retrieved (though they might
- not be, e.g., a query with a LIMIT clause will stop
- short of paying the total cost of the Limit node's
+ Estimated total cost (if all rows are retrieved, though they might
+ not be; e.g., a query with a LIMIT clause will stop
+ short of paying the total cost of the Limit plan node's
input node)
- Estimated number of rows output by this plan node (Again, only if
- executed to completion.)
+ Estimated number of rows output by this plan node (again, only if
+ executed to completion)
the cost only reflects things that the planner cares about.
In particular, the cost does not consider the time spent transmitting
result rows to the client, which could be an important
- factor in the total elapsed time; but the planner ignores it because
+ factor in the real elapsed time; but the planner ignores it because
it cannot change it by altering the plan. (Every correct plan will
output the same row set, we trust.)
- The <command>EXPLAIN rows= value is a little tricky
+ The <literal>rows value is a little tricky
because it is not the
number of rows processed or scanned by the plan node. It is usually less,
reflecting the estimated selectivity of any WHERE-clause
conditions that are being
- applied to the node. Ideally the top-level rows estimate will
+ applied at the node. Ideally the top-level rows estimate will
approximate the number of rows actually returned, updated, or deleted
by the query.
- The actual number of rows this query would select is 7000, but the rows=
+ The actual number of rows this query would select is 7000, but the rows
estimate is only approximate. If you try to duplicate this experiment,
you will probably get a slightly different estimate; moreover, it will
change after each ANALYZE command, because the
If the WHERE condition is selective enough, the planner might
- switch to a <emphasis>simple index scan plan:
+ switch to a <quote>simple index scan plan:
EXPLAIN SELECT * FROM tenk1 WHERE unique1 < 3;
In this case the table rows are fetched in index order, which makes them
even more expensive to read, but there are so few that the extra cost
of sorting the row locations is not worth it. You'll most often see
- this plan type in queries that fetch just a single row, and for queries
- with an ORDER BY condition that matches the index
+ this plan type for queries that fetch just a single row, and for queries
+ that have an ORDER BY condition that matches the index
order.
- In this nested-loop join, the outer scan (upper) is the same bitmap index scan we
+ In this nested-loop join, the outer (upper) scan is the same bitmap index scan we
saw earlier, and so its cost and row count are the same because we are
applying the WHERE clause unique1 < 100
at that node.
Note that the actual time
values are in milliseconds of
- real time, whereas the cost= estimates are expressed in
+ real time, whereas the cost estimates are expressed in
arbitrary units; so they are unlikely to match up.
The thing to pay attention to is whether the ratios of actual time and
estimated costs are consistent.
In some query plans, it is possible for a subplan node to be executed more
than once. For example, the inner index scan is executed once per outer
row in the above nested-loop plan. In such cases, the
- loops= value reports the
+ loops value reports the
total number of executions of the node, and the actual time and rows
values shown are averages per-execution. This is done to make the numbers
comparable with the way that the cost estimates are shown. Multiply by
- the loops= value to get the total time actually spent in
+ the loops value to get the total time actually spent in
the node.
- When doing INSERTs, turn off autocommit and just do
+ When using multiple INSERTs, turn off autocommit and just do
one commit at the end. (In plain
SQL, this means issuing BEGIN at the start and
COMMIT at the end. Some client libraries might
Note that loading a large number of rows using
COPY is almost always faster than using
- INSERT, even if the PREPARE ... INSERT is used and
+ INSERT, even if PREPARE is used and
multiple insertions are batched into a single transaction.
-
+
The first few chapters are written so they can be understood
without prerequisite knowledge, so new users who need to set
up their own server can begin their exploration with this part.
- The rest of this part is about tuning and management; the material
+ The rest of this part is about tuning and management; that material
assumes that the reader is familiar with the general use of
the
PostgreSQL database system. Readers are encouraged to look at and
-
+
Queries
When a table reference names a table that is the parent of a
- table inheritance hierarchy, the table reference produces rows
- not only of that table but all of its descendant tables, unless the
+ table inheritance hierarchy, the table reference produces rows of
+ not only that table but all of its descendant tables, unless the
key word ONLY precedes the table name. However, the
reference produces only the columns that appear in the named table
— any columns added in subtables are ignored.
- Produce every possible combination of rows from
+ For every possible combination of rows from
T1 and
T2 (i.e., a Cartesian product),
- with output columns consisting of
- all T1 columns
- followed by all T2 columns. If
+ the joined table will contain a
+ row consisting of all columns in T1
+ followed by all columns in T2. If
the tables have N and M rows respectively, the joined
table will have N * M rows.
equality of each of these pairs of columns. Furthermore, the
output of JOIN USING has one column for each of
the equated pairs of input columns, followed by the
- other columns from each table. Thus, USING (a, b,
+ remaining columns from each table. Thus, USING (a, b,
c) is equivalent to ON (t1.a = t2.a AND
t1.b = t2.b AND t1.c = t2.c) with the exception that
if ON is used there will be two columns
First, an inner join is performed. Then, for each row in
T1 that does not satisfy the join condition with any row in
- T2, a row is added with null values in columns of
+ T2, a joined row is added with null values in columns of
T2. Thus, the joined table always has at least
one row for each row in T1.
First, an inner join is performed. Then, for each row in
T2 that does not satisfy the join condition with any row in
- T1, a row is added with null values in columns of
+ T1, a joined row is added with null values in columns of
T1. This is the converse of a left join: the result table
will always have a row for each row in T2.
First, an inner join is performed. Then, for each row in
T1 that does not satisfy the join condition with any row in
- T2, a row is added with null values in columns of
+ T2, a joined row is added with null values in columns of
T2. Also, for each row of T2 that does not satisfy the
- join condition with any row in T1, a row with null
+ join condition with any row in T1, a joined row with null
values in the columns of T1 is added.
When an alias is applied to the output of a JOIN
clause, the alias hides the original
- name referenced in the JOIN. For example:
+ name(s) within the JOIN. For example:
SELECT a.* FROM my_table AS a JOIN your_table AS b ON ...
In some cases it is useful to define table functions that can
return different column sets depending on how they are invoked.
To support this, the table function can be declared as returning
- the pseudotype record, rather than SET OF.
- When such a function is used in
+ the pseudotype record. When such a function is used in
a query, the expected row structure must be specified in the
query itself, so that the system can know how to parse and plan
the query. Consider this example:
probably not as portable to other SQL database management systems,
even though it is in the SQL standard. For
outer joins there is no choice: they must be done in
- the FROM clause. The ON/USING
+ the FROM clause. The ON or USING
clause of an outer join is not equivalent to a
- WHERE condition, because it affects the addition
+ WHERE condition, because it results in the addition
of rows (for unmatched input rows) as well as the removal of rows
- from the final result.
+ in the final result.
SELECT ... FROM fdt WHERE EXISTS (SELECT c1 FROM t2 WHERE c2 > fdt.c1)
- fdt is the table used in the
+ fdt is the table derived in the
FROM clause. Rows that do not meet the search
condition of the WHERE clause are eliminated from
fdt. Notice the use of scalar subqueries as
In general, if a table is grouped, columns that are not
- the same in the group cannot be referenced except in aggregate
+ listed in GROUP BY cannot be referenced except in aggregate
expressions. An example with aggregate expressions is:
=> SELECT x, sum(y) FROM test1 GROUP BY x;
Grouping without aggregate expressions effectively calculates the
- set of distinct values in a column. This can more clearly be achieved
+ set of distinct values in a column. This can also be achieved
using the
DISTINCT clause (see
linkend="queries-distinct">).
the row's values substituted for any column references. But the
expressions in the select list do not have to reference any
columns in the table expression of the FROM clause;
- they can be constant arithmetic expressions as well.
+ they can be constant arithmetic expressions, for instance.
- The entries in the select list can be assigned names for further
- processing, perhaps for reference in an ORDER BY clause
+ The entries in the select list can be assigned names for subsequent
+ processing, such as for use in an ORDER BY clause
or for display by the client application. For example:
SELECT a AS value, b + c AS sum FROM ...
The naming of output columns here is different from that done in
the
FROM clause (see
linkend="queries-table-aliases">). It is possible
- to rename the same column twice, but the name used in
+ to rename the same column twice, but the name assigned in
the select list is the one that will be passed on.
The NULLS FIRST and NULLS LAST options can be
used to determine whether nulls appear before or after non-null values
- in the sort ordering. The default behavior is for null values sort as
- if larger than all non-null values (NULLS FIRST), except
- in DESC ordering, where NULLS LAST is the default.
+ in the sort ordering. By default, null values sort as if larger than any
+ non-null value; that is, NULLS FIRST is the default for
+ DESC order, and NULLS LAST otherwise.
SELECT a, max(b) FROM table1 GROUP BY a ORDER BY 1;
both of which sort by the first output column. Note that an output
- column name has to stand alone, e.g., it cannot be used in an expression
+ column name has to stand alone, that is, it cannot be used in an expression
— for example, this is not correct:
SELECT a + b AS sum, c FROM table1 ORDER BY sum + c; -- wrong
When using LIMIT, it is important to use an
- ORDER BY clause that constrains the result rows in a
+ ORDER BY clause that constrains the result rows into a
unique order. Otherwise you will get an unpredictable subset of
the query's rows. You might be asking for the tenth through
- twentieth rows, but tenth through twentieth using what ordering? The
+ twentieth rows, but tenth through twentieth in what ordering? The
ordering is unknown, unless you specified ORDER BY.
VALUES ( expression [, ...] ) [, ...]
- Each parenthesized list of expressions generates a row in the table expression.
+ Each parenthesized list of expressions generates a row in the table.
The lists must all have the same number of elements (i.e., the number
of columns in the table), and corresponding entries in each list must
have compatible data types. The actual data type assigned to each column
-
+
The <acronym>SQL</acronym> Language
The \i command reads in commands from the
- specified file. The psql -s option puts you in
+ specified file. psql's -s option puts you in
single step mode which pauses before sending each statement to the
server. The commands used in this section are in the file
basics.sql.
int is the normal integer type. real is
a type for storing single precision floating-point numbers.
date should be self-explanatory. (Yes, the column of
- type date is also named <literal>date>.
+ type date is also named <structfield>date>.
This might be convenient or confusing — you choose.)
and a rich set of geometric types.
PostgreSQL can be customized with an
arbitrary number of user-defined data types. Consequently, type
- names are not special key words in the syntax except where required to
+ names are not key words in the syntax, except where required to
support special cases in the
SQL standard.
tables from which to retrieve the data), and an optional
qualification (the part that specifies any restrictions). For
example, to retrieve all the rows of table
- <classname>weathername>, type:
+ <structname>weathername>, type:
SELECT * FROM weather;
of the same or different tables at one time is called a
join query. As an example, say you wish to
list all the weather records together with the location of the
- associated city. To do that, we need to compare the city column of
- each row of the weather table with the name column of all rows in
- the cities table, and select the pairs of rows where these values match.
+ associated city. To do that, we need to compare the city
+ column of each row of the weather table with the
+ name column of all rows in the cities
+ table, and select the pairs of rows where these values match.
This is only a conceptual model. The join is usually performed
There is no result row for the city of Hayward. This is
because there is no matching entry in the
- <classname>citiesname> table for Hayward, so the join
- ignores the unmatched rows in the <literal>weather table. We will see
+ <structname>citiesname> table for Hayward, so the join
+ ignores the unmatched rows in the <structname>weather table. We will see
shortly how this can be fixed.
There are two columns containing the city name. This is
- correct because the columns from the
- <classname>weather and the
- <classname>citiesname> tables are concatenated. In
+ correct because the lists of columns from the
+ <structname>weather and
+ <structname>citiesname> tables are concatenated. In
practice this is undesirable, though, so you will probably want
to list the output columns explicitly rather than using
*:
Now we will figure out how we can get the Hayward records back in.
What we want the query to do is to scan the
- <classname>weathername> table and for each row to find the
- matching <classname>citiesname> row(s). If no matching row is
+ <structname>weathername> table and for each row to find the
+ matching <structname>citiesname> row(s). If no matching row is
found we want some empty values
to be substituted
- for the <classname>citiesname> table's columns. This kind
+ for the <structname>citiesname> table's columns. This kind
of query is called an outer join. (The
joins we have seen so far are inner joins.) The command looks
like this:
to find all the weather records that are in the temperature range
of other weather records. So we need to compare the
temp_lo and temp_hi columns of
- each <classname>weathername> row to the
+ each <structname>weathername> row to the
temp_lo and
temp_hi columns of all other
- <classname>weathername> rows. We can do this with the
+ <structname>weathername> rows. We can do this with the
following query:
which gives us the same results for only the cities that have all
- <literal>temp_lo values below 40. Finally, if we only care about
+ <structfield>temp_lo values below 40. Finally, if we only care about
cities whose
names begin with S
, we might do:
-
+
Composite Types
NULL) can presently be included. Note that the AS keyword
is essential; without it, the system will think a different kind
of CREATE TYPE command is meant, and you will get odd syntax
- error.
+ errors.
- Whenever you create a table, a composite type is automatically
- created also, with the same name as the table, to represent the table's
+ Whenever you create a table, a composite type is also automatically
+ created, with the same name as the table, to represent the table's
row type. For example, had we said:
CREATE TABLE inventory_item (
The external text representation of a composite value consists of items that
are interpreted according to the I/O conversion rules for the individual
field types, plus decoration that indicates the composite structure.
- The decoration consists of parentheses
+ The decoration consists of parentheses (( and ))
around the whole value, plus commas (,) between adjacent
items. Whitespace outside the parentheses is ignored, but within the
parentheses it is considered part of the field value, and might or might not be
- As shown previously, when writing a composite value you can use double
+ As shown previously, when writing a composite value you can write double
quotes around any individual field value.
You must do so if the field value would otherwise
confuse the composite-value parser. In particular, fields containing
-
+
Getting Started
A server process, which manages the database files, accepts
connections to the database from client applications, and
- performs database actions on the behalf of the clients. The
+ performs database actions on behalf of the clients. The
database server program is called
postgres.
createdb: command not found
then
PostgreSQL was not installed properly. Either it was not- installed at all or your shell's search path was not set correctly. Try
- calling the command with an absolute path instead:
+ installed at all or your shell's search path was not set to include it.
+ Try calling the command with an absolute path instead:
$ /usr/local/pgsql/bin/createdb mydb
Another response could be this:
-createdb: could not connect to database postgres: could not connect
-to server: No such file or directory
+createdb: could not connect to database postgres: could not connect to server: No such file or directory
Is the server running locally and accepting
connections on Unix domain socket "/tmp/.s.PGSQL.5432"?
-
+
map (see ), which stores information about free
space available in the relation. The free space map is stored in a file named
with the filenode number plus the suffix _fsm. Tables also have a
-visibility map fork, with the suffix _vm, to track which pages are
-known to have no dead tuples and therefore need no vacuuming.
+visibility map, stored in a fork with the suffix
+_vm, to track which pages are known to have no dead tuples.
+The visibility map is described further in .
+
+
+
Visibility Map
+
+
+
+
+Each heap relation has a Visibility Map
+(VM) to keep track of which pages contain only tuples that are known to be
+visible to all active transactions. It's stored
+alongside the main relation data in a separate relation fork, named after the
+filenode number of the relation, plus a _vm suffix. For example,
+if the filenode of a relation is 12345, the VM is stored in a file called
+12345_vm, in the same directory as the main relation file.
+Note that indexes do not have VMs.
+
+
+The visibility map simply stores one bit per heap page. A set bit means
+that all tuples on the page are known to be visible to all transactions.
+This means that the page does not contain any tuples that need to be vacuumed;
+in future it might also be used to avoid visiting the page for visibility
+checks. The map is conservative in the sense that we
+make sure that whenever a bit is set, we know the condition is true, but if
+a bit is not set, it might or might not be true.
+
+
+
+
Database Page Layout
-
+
SQL Syntax
- The zero-byte (null byte) character cannot be in a string constant.
+ The character with the code zero cannot be in a string constant.
- Comment are removed from the input stream before further syntax
- analysis and are effectively replaced by whitespace.
+ A comment is removed from the input stream before further syntax
+ analysis and is effectively replaced by whitespace.
- Another value expression in parentheses, useful to group
+ Another value expression in parentheses (used to group
subexpressions and override
casts that are marked OK to apply implicitly
in the system catalogs. Other casts must be invoked with
explicit casting syntax. This restriction is intended to prevent
- surprising conversions from being silently applied.
+ surprising conversions from being applied silently.
An array constructor is an expression that builds an
- array using values for its member elements. A simple array
+ array value using values for its member elements. A simple array
constructor
consists of the key word ARRAY, a left square bracket
[, a list of expressions (separated by commas) for the
- A row constructor is an expression that builds a row (also
+ A row constructor is an expression that builds a row value (also
called a composite value) using values
for its member fields. A row constructor consists of the key word
ROW, a left parenthesis, zero or more
-
+
Full Text Search
Text search parsers and templates are built from low-level C functions;
- therefore C programming ability is required to develop new ones, and
+ therefore it requires C programming ability to develop new ones, and
superuser privileges to install one into a database. (There are examples
of add-on parsers and templates in the contrib/ area of the
PostgreSQL distribution.) Since dictionaries and
recording which configuration was used for each index entry. This
would be useful, for example, if the document collection contained
documents in different languages. Again,
- queries that wish to use the index must be phrased to match, e.g.,
+ queries that are meant to use the index must be phrased to match, e.g.,
WHERE to_tsvector(config_name, body) @@ 'a & b'.
- ts_rank( weights float4[], vector tsvector, query tsquery , normalization integer ) returns float4
+ ts_rank( weights float4[], vector tsvector,
+ query tsquery , normalization integer ) returns float4
Ranking can be expensive since it requires consulting the
tsvector of each matching document, which can be I/O bound and
therefore slow. Unfortunately, it is almost impossible to avoid since
- practical queries often result in a large number of matches.
+ practical queries often result in large numbers of matches.
ts_headline accepts a document along
- with a query, and returns an excerpt of
+ with a query, and returns an excerpt from
the document in which terms from the query are highlighted. The
configuration to be used to parse the document can be specified by
config; if config
- StartSel, StopSel: the strings to delimit
- query words appearing in the document, to distinguish
+ StartSel, StopSel: the strings with
+ which to delimit query words appearing in the document, to distinguish
them from other excerpted words. You must double-quote these strings
if they contain spaces or commas.
FROM (SELECT id, body, q, ts_rank_cd(ti, q) AS rank
FROM apod, to_tsquery('stars') q
WHERE ti @@ q
- ORDER BY rank DESC
+ ORDER BY rank DESC
LIMIT 10) AS foo;
- A limitation of built-in triggers is that they treat all the
+ A limitation of these built-in triggers is that they treat all the
input columns alike. To process columns differently — for
- example, to weigh title differently from body — it is necessary
+ example, to weight title differently from body — it is necessary
to write a custom trigger. Here is an example using
PL/pgSQL as the trigger language:
- ts_stat(sqlquery text, weights text,
- OUT word text, OUT ndoc integer,
+ ts_stat(sqlquery text, weights text,
+ OUT word text, OUT ndoc integer,
OUT nentry integer) returns setof record
by the parser, each dictionary in the list is consulted in turn,
until some dictionary recognizes it as a known word. If it is identified
as a stop word, or if no dictionary recognizes the token, it will be
- discarded and not indexed or searched.
+ discarded and not indexed or searched for.
The general rule for configuring a list of dictionaries
is to place first the most narrow, most specific dictionary, then the more
general dictionaries, finishing with a very general dictionary, like
ALTER TEXT SEARCH CONFIGURATION russian
- ALTER MAPPING FOR asciiword, asciihword, hword_asciipart
+ ALTER MAPPING FOR asciiword, asciihword, hword_asciipart
WITH thesaurus_simple;
- As an example, we will create a configuration
- pg by duplicating the built-in
- english configuration.
+ As an example we will create a configuration
+ pg, starting by duplicating the built-in
+ english configuration:
CREATE TEXT SEARCH CONFIGURATION public.pg ( COPY = pg_catalog.english );
- There are two kinds of indexes which can be used to speed up full text
+ There are two kinds of indexes that can be used to speed up full text
searches.
Note that indexes are not mandatory for full text searching, but in
cases where a column is searched on a regular basis, an index is
to check the actual table row to eliminate such false matches.
(
PostgreSQL does this automatically when needed.)
GiST indexes are lossy because each document is represented in the
- index using a fixed-length signature. The signature is generated by hashing
+ index by a fixed-length signature. The signature is generated by hashing
each word into a random bit in an n-bit string, with all these bits OR-ed
together to produce an n-bit document signature. When two words hash to
the same bit position there will be a false match. If all words in
-
+
Type Conversion
user-defined. (For a list see ;
but note it is also possible to create custom type categories.) Within each
category there can be one or more preferred types, which
-are selected when there is ambiguity. With careful selection
+are preferred when there is a choice of possible types. With careful selection
of preferred types and available implicit casts, it is possible to ensure that
ambiguous expressions (those with multiple candidate parsing solutions) can be
resolved in a useful way.
Additionally, if a query usually requires an implicit conversion for a function, and
if then the user defines a new function with the correct argument types, the parser
-should use this new function and no longer do implicit conversion using the old function.
+should use this new function and no longer do implicit conversion to use the old function.
- The specific operator invoked is determined by the following
- steps. Note that this procedure is affected
- by the precedence of the involved operators. See
- linkend="sql-precedence"> for more information.
+ The specific operator that is referenced by an operator expression
+ is determined using the following procedure.
+ Note that this procedure is indirectly affected
+ by the precedence of the involved operators, since that will determine
+ which sub-expressions are taken to be the inputs of which operators.
+ See for more information.
Select the operators to be considered from the
pg_operator system catalog. If a non-schema-qualified
operator name was used (the usual case), the operators
-considered are those with a matching name and argument count that are
+considered are those with the matching name and argument count that are
visible in the current search path (see ).
If a qualified operator name was given, only operators in the specified
schema are considered.
If one argument of a binary operator invocation is of the unknown type,
then assume it is the same type as the other argument for this check.
-Cases involving two unknown types will never find a match at
-this step.
+Invocations involving two unknown inputs, or a unary operator
+with an unknown input, will never find a match at this step.
are specified in the query. So, the parser looks for all candidate operators
and finds that there are candidates accepting both string-category and
bit-string-category inputs. Since string category is preferred when available,
-that category is selected, and the
+that category is selected, and then the
preferred type for strings, text, is used as the specific
-type to resolve the unknown literals.
+type to resolve the unknown literals as.
- The specific function to be invoked is determined
- according to the following steps.
+ The specific function that is referenced by a function call
+ is determined using the following procedure.
Select the functions to be considered from the
pg_proc system catalog. If a non-schema-qualified
function name was used, the functions
-considered are those with a matching name and argument count that are
+considered are those with the matching name and argument count that are
visible in the current search path (see ).
If a qualified function name was given, only functions in the specified
schema are considered.
-Discard candidate functions in which the input types do not match
+Discard candidate functions for which the input types do not match
and cannot be converted (using an implicit conversion) to match.
unknown literals are
assumed to be convertible to anything for this purpose. If only one
Rounding Function Argument Type Resolution
-There is only one round function which takes two
-arguments; it takes a first argument of numeric and
-a second argument of integer. So the following query automatically converts
+There is only one round function that takes two
+arguments; it takes a first argument of type numeric and
+a second argument of type integer.
+So the following query automatically converts
the first argument of type integer to
numeric:
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