CREATE TRIGGER creates a new trigger. The trigger will be associated with the specified table, view, or foreign table and will execute the specified function function_name when certain operations are ...

This function opens a new database connection using the parameters taken from two NULL-terminated arrays. The first, keywords, is defined as an array of strings, each one being a key word. The second, ...

The first time a user-defined function in a particular loadable object file is called in a session, the dynamic loader loads that object file into memory so that the function can be called. The CREATE ...

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 ...

This section describes the detailed format of each message. Each is marked to indicate that it can be sent by a frontend (F), a backend (B), or both (F & B). Notice that although each message includes ...

pg_upgrade (formerly called pg_migrator) allows data stored in PostgreSQL data files to be upgraded to a later PostgreSQL major version without the data dump/restore ...

ALTER LARGE OBJECT — change the definition of a large object ALTER MATERIALIZED VIEW — change the definition of a materialized view ALTER OPERATOR — change the definition of an operator ALTER OPERATOR ...

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 ...

PostgreSQL uses a message-based protocol for communication between frontends and backends (clients and servers). The protocol is supported over TCP/IP and also over Unix-domain sockets. Port number ...

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 ...

7.2.3. The GROUP BY and HAVING Clauses The FROM Clause derives a table from one or more other tables given in a comma-separated table reference list. When a table reference names a table that is the ...

(You can add a reminder comment to the file by copying the line above and preceding it with #.) Each of the first four fields can be a literal value, or *, which ...