Preface

This book will guide you through the development of code inside PostgreSQL 11, the world's most advanced open source database.

PostgreSQL has grown a lot from being a relation database to a whole ecosystem, and has a very rich feature set, a professional and supportive community, and delivers a high quality rock-solid DBMS with outstanding documentation. Thanks to its features and capabilities, PostgreSQL is every day embraced by more and more professionals and industries, and it is for this reason that it is important to understand what is possible with this great database.