Postgres supports a long list of database features, including several enterprise features. Its unique combination of simplicity and power makes it a popular choice for individual users and small businesses, but enterprise businesses like Yahoo, Uber, Disqus, and TripAdvisor as well. It is high performance and highly scalable, capable of handling huge amounts of data and high-load internet applications with thousands of concurrent users.

It runs on nearly any operating system including Linux, Unix, and Windows. Put simply, it is a database that allows you to relate one piece of data to another (thus, “relational”). PostgreSQL is an ACID-compliant Object Relational Database Management System, or ORDBMS (quite a mouthful!).

Know how to use both command-line and UI tools to manage your database.

Know how to create and manage databases and users.

Have a running PostgreSQL 9.5.4 instance.

You will need at least a basic level of comfort using the command line using either the MacOSX built-in terminal, iTerm2, Zsh, or something similar. This tutorial will teach you how to set up, configure, and use PostgreSQL on MacOSX 10.7 (Lion) and above. If you’re here reading this tutorial, hopefully, you are trying to do the same! The other day I began a new Node.js project and wanted to use PostgreSQL as my database backend. It is Free Software released under the PostgreSQL License. PgAdmin is developed by a community of PostgreSQL experts around the world and is available in more than a dozen languages. No additional drivers are required to communicate with the database server.

Server connection may be made using TCP/IP or Unix Domain Sockets (on *nix platforms), and may be SSL encrypted for security.

The application also includes a syntax highlighting SQL editor, a server-side code editor, an SQL/batch/shell job scheduling agent, support for the Slony-I replication engine and much more. The graphical interface supports all PostgreSQL features and makes administration easy. PgAdmin is designed to answer the needs of all users, from writing simple SQL queries to developing complex databases. The application may be used on Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris, Mac OSX and Windows platforms to manage PostgreSQL 7.3 and above running on any platform, as well as commercial and derived versions of PostgreSQL such as Postgres Plus Advanced Server and Greenplum database. PgAdmin is the a popular and feature rich Open Source administration and development platform for PostgreSQL, the most advanced Open Source database in the world.

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