Postgres-XC 1.0.2 Documentation

The Postgres-XC Development Group

Copyright © 1996-2011 The PostgreSQL Global Development Group

Copyright © 2010-2013 Postgres-XC Development Group

Table of Contents

What is Postgres-XC?
A Brief History of PostgreSQL and Postgres-XC
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. The Rule System
37. Procedural Languages
38. PL/pgSQL - SQL Procedural Language
39. PL/Tcl - Tcl Procedural Language
40. PL/Perl - Perl Procedural Language
41. PL/Python - Python Procedural Language
42. Server Programming Interface

VI. Reference

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

VII. Internals

43. Overview of PostgreSQL Internals
44. Overview of Postgres-XC Internals
45. System Catalogs
46. Frontend/Backend Protocol
47. Postgres-XC Coding Conventions
48. Native Language Support
49. Writing A Procedural Language Handler
50. Writing A Foreign Data Wrapper
51. Genetic Query Optimizer
52. Index Access Method Interface Definition
53. GiST Indexes
54. GIN Indexes
55. Database Physical Storage
56. BKI Backend Interface
57. 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. External Projects
H. The Source Code Repository
I. Documentation
J. Acronyms

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