Intro to PostgreSQL

A crash course to get you up and running with PostgreSQL. We will cover:

• Installation from binaries and source
• Debug builds and basic debug workflow
• Cluster initialization, startup, and session managment
• Basic configuration - postgresql.conf and pg_hba.conf
• psql use/hints
• SQL syntax and quoting
• Data types
• DDL
• DML
• Queries: including Joins, Subqueries, VIEWs, Common Table Expressions