PostgreSQL 16.4 Support with Oracle Compatibility Dear Community Members, We are thrilled to announce the release ...

The [PostgreSQL Global Development Group]( today announced the release of [PostgreSQL 17]( the latest version of the world's most advanced ...

PostgreSQL provides various lock modes to control concurrent access to data in tables. These modes can be used for application-controlled locking in situations where MVCC does not give the desired ...

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 ...

PostgreSQL provides facilities to support dynamic tracing of the database server. This allows an external utility to be called at specific points in the code and thereby trace execution. A number of ...

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 ...

An output plugin is loaded by dynamically loading a shared library with the output plugin's name as the library base name. The normal library search path is used to ...

This function returns a version 4 (random) UUID. This is the most commonly used type of UUID and is appropriate for most applications. The uuid-ossp module provides additional functions that implement ...

dblink_connect — opens a persistent connection to a remote database Only superusers may use dblink_connect to create non-password-authenticated and non-GSSAPI-authenticated connections. If ...

libpq pipeline mode allows applications to send a query without having to read the result of the previously sent query. Taking advantage of the pipeline mode, a client will wait less for the server, ...