About this book's code examples
The sample output shown here has been created with the psql utility of PostgreSQL, usually running on a Linux system. Most of the code will work the same way if you are using a GUI utility such as pgAdmin3 to access the server instead. Take an example of the following line of code:
postgres=# SELECT 1;
The postgres=# part is the prompt shown by the psql command.
The examples in this book have been tested using PostgreSQL 9.3. They will probably work on PostgreSQL Version 8.3 and later. There haven't been many major changes to how server programming happens in the last few versions of PostgreSQL. The syntax has become stricter over time to reduce the possibility of mistakes in the server programming code. Due to the ...
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