PostgreSQL database presentation and tutorial for installation

1. Postgres Database
By : Ibrahem Batta
and Emad Shakhsheer

2. What Is Postgres ?
• PostgreSQL, often simply Postgres, is an
object-relational database management
system (ORDBMS).
• available for many platforms including Linux,
FreeBSD, Solaris, MS Windows and Mac OS.

3. Cont.
• Free and open source software.
• No copy right.
• Access core code.
• Development part .
• Global community of developers and
companies develops the system.

4. History
• The Ingres project at the University of
California, Berkeley, in 1982.
• In 1985 started a post-Ingres project to
address the problems with contemporary
database systems that had become.
• Starting in 1986, the team published a number
of papers describing the basis of the system

5. Cont.
• by 1988 had a prototype version.
• The team released version 1 to a small
number of users in June 1989.
• Version 2 with a re-written rules system in
June 1990.

6. Cont.
• By 1993 the great number of users began to
increase.
• In 1996, the project was renamed to
PostgreSQL to reflect its support for SQL.

7. Parts and Database administration
• Psql : appreciation to PostgreSQL.
• pgAdmin : graphical front-end administration
tool .
• phpPgAdmin : phpPgAdmin is a web-based
administration tool for PostgreSQL written in
PHP and based on the popular phpMyAdmin
interface.

8. Cont.
• pgFouine : to generate detailed reports from a
PostgreSQL log file and is also capable of
providing VACUUM analysis.
• Postgres Enterprise Manager : is a non-free
tool consisting of a service, multiple agents,
and a GUI which provides remote monitoring,
management, reporting, capacity planning and
tuning.

9. Prominent users
• Yahoo!
• MySpace, a popular social networking
website,
• OpenStreetMap, a collaborative project to
create a free editable map of the world.
• Sony Online multiplayer online games.
• Skype VoIP application, central business
databases.

10. General advantages
• Free.
• open source software.
• Has excellent commercial and community
support options

11. Cont.
• High reliability.
• High stability.
• Is very scalable and extensible.
• Cross platforms.

12. Cont.
• GUI database design and administration
tools.
• High level of concurrency.
• Data always in a consistent state.

13. Comparison.
Feature Oracle PostgreSQL
Open Source Not all X
Free / No License Costs - X
Replication X X
Views X X
Triggers X X
Unicode Not all X
Sequences X X
Inheritance X X
Open API - X
Native SSL Support No all X

14. Spatial database.
• Is a database that is optimized to store and
query data that is related to objects in
space, including points, lines and polygons.
While typical databases can understand
various numeric and character types of
data, additional functionality needs to be
added for databases to process spatial data
types.

15. PostGIS.
• Is an open source software program that
adds support for geographic objects to the
PostgreSQL object-relational database.
PostGIS follows the Simple Features for
SQL specification from the Open Geospatial
Consortium (OGC).
• ArcGIS is the most Prominent user.

16. pgRouting.
• provides routing functionality on a PostGIS
database. Free & open source.
• Added to the set of functions in PostGis.
• The most important function is shortest
path.

17. Postgres Database installation

18. Postgres Database installation

19. Installed programe

20. Install Apache server for Postgres

21. Test Apache Server

22. Install pg php admin

23. Cont.

24. cont.

25. Cont.

26. What is Template and what is POSTGIS
template ?

27. Installing POSTGIS Template

28. Application Stack Builder

29. Cont.

30. Cont.

31. Create PostGis Database

32. Create PostGis table

33. Application on spatial Types