Introduction
Postgresql is an open source object relational database. It is often thought of as an alternative to MySQL.
In this post I’ll provide the steps required to install Postgresql on a developer laptop, assuming that work will be done in both SQL and Python.
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Installation
Open a command prompt and enter the following commands.
sudo apt-get install postgresql postgresql-common postgresql-contrib \ postgresql-client postgresql-client-common \ pgsnap pgadmin3 pgpool2 ptop pgtune pgloader pgagent \ python-pygresql postgresql-plpython-9.1 python-psycopg2
You’ll see a list of additional packages that will be installed by default.
The following extra packages will be installed:
libossp-uuid16 libpgpool0 libpq5 libwxbase2.8-0 libwxgtk2.8-0 pgadmin3-data php5-cli php5-common php5-pgsql postgresql-9.1 postgresql-client-9.1 postgresql-contrib-9.1 python-support
Installed Packages
Each of the installed packages are described below.
postgresql
This is the core Postgresql object relational database server.
postgresql-common
Add the ability to setup a cluster of Postgresql database servers.
postgresql-client
Command line client for interacting with a Postgresql database, including the psql command.
postgresql-client-common
Allows multiple clients to be installed as part of a Postgresql cluster.
pgsnap
Generates a Postgresql performance report in HTML format.
pgadmin3
GUI tool to work with Postgresql. Personally, I prefer some of the commercial tools, such as Navicat on Linux or EMS SQL Manager on Windows.
pgpool2
Middleware between a Postgresql client and a Postgresql server that provides connection pooling, replication and load balancing, among other things.
ptop
CLI based performance monitoring tool that’s analogous to the Linux psql command
pgtune
Automatically tunes the Postgresql configuration file postgresql.conf based on the system’s hardware.
pgloader
Utility for loading flat files and CSV files into a Postgresql table.
pgagent
Job scheduler for Postgresql.
python-pygresql
Python module that allows you to query a Postgresql database from a python script. Basically, this is for python developers who need to query Postgresql.
postgresql-plpython-9.1
Allows SQL developers to extend their SQL script by writing procedural functions in python.
python-psycopg2
Similar to python-pygresql, except that python-psycopg2 is designed for heavily threaded python scripts that create and destroy a large number of cursors, and execute a high volume of INSERTs and UPDATEs.
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