pg_basebackup is used to take base backups of a running PostgreSQL database cluster. These are taken without affecting other clients to the database, and can be used both for point-in-time recovery ...

RETURN with an expression terminates the function and returns the value of expression to the caller. This form is used for PL/pgSQL functions that do not return a set. In a function that returns a ...

This module implements the hstore data type for storing sets of key/value pairs within a single PostgreSQL value. This can be useful in various scenarios, such as rows with many attributes that are ...

As of Postgres v6.2, time travel is no longer supported. There are several reasons for this: performance impact, storage size, and a pg_time file which grows toward infinite size in a short period of ...

PL/pgSQL can be used to define trigger procedures. A trigger procedure is created with the CREATE FUNCTION command, declaring it as a function with no arguments and a return type of trigger. Note that ...

pg_restore — restore a PostgreSQL database from an archive file created by pg_dump Restore only the data, not the schema (data definitions). Table data, large objects, and sequence values are restored ...

Value expressions are used in a variety of contexts, such as in the target list of the SELECT command, as new column values in INSERT or UPDATE, or in search conditions in a number of commands. The ...

The PoWA team is pleased to announce the release of the version 2.3.0 ofpg_stat_kcache, an extension that gathers statistics about real reads and writes done by the ...

CREATE INDEX constructs an index on the specified column(s) of the specified table. Indexes are primarily used to enhance database performance (though inappropriate use can result in slower ...

CREATE TABLE will create a new, initially empty table in the current database. The table will be owned by the user issuing the command. If a schema name is given (for example, CREATE TABLE ...

As explained previously, the expression in such a statement is evaluated by means of an SQL SELECT command sent to the main database engine. The expression must yield a single value (possibly a row ...

A data change trigger is declared as a function with no arguments and a return type of trigger. Note that the function must be declared with no arguments even if it expects to receive some arguments ...