» Overview of PostgreSQL

• Overview of projects and tools.
• Comparison with other RDBMS engines.

» Installation

• Steps of installation.
• Linux distributions: From RPM or source code.
• Binaries for MS-Windows. Installation wizard. Preparing the operating system.

» Initializing and executing an instance

• Principle. Shutting down and rebooting the server.
• Server process architecture.
• Creating additional instances.

» Connections and administrative tools

• Sessions. Server side (pg_hba.conf). Security (SSL, etc.).
• Access rights Role management (users and groups). Granting and revoking privileges.
• Comand line and graphical tools. psql (shell SQL). PgAdminIII, phpPgAdmin, Pgpool.

» Defining data

• Creating schemas, tables, indices, domains, etc.
• Types of data, operators, and functions.

» Programming for administration

• Server side Stored procedures. PL/pgSQL. PL/Perl. C extensions. Triggers.
• Stored functions.
• Client side. PHP Web applications. PostgreSQL and PDO drivers. Java Web applications.

» Routine administration

• Defining files. Creating namespaces (tablespaces, files).
• Directory tree and server files.
• Server administration. Configuration. Binary logs and memory.
• The statistics collector and activity logs.
• Maintenance and operating tasks. Analyzing queries with Explain.
• Analyzing and cleaning up table and index spaces with Vacuum.
• Reconstructing indexes with Reindex.

» Backups and restores

• Backups with pg_dump and pg_dumpall.
• Restores with pg_restore and psql.
• Binary logs: Write Ahead Logging (WAL).