PostgreSQL: Introduction to PostgreSQL

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PostgreSQL, also called PostgreSQL, is one of the most popular SQL database management systems (DBMS) ever.

It is Open Source, free for personal and commercial use, and it has a long history that started in 1996, building on top of other software that dates back to the 1980’s.

PostgreSQL is a really complete and full-featured general purpose relational database.

It provides support for most of the SQL standard, and also builds on top of it its unique set of features, to provide us a great tool.

You can find the project homepage at https://www.postgresql.org.

We can interact with a PostgreSQL database using many different programming languages. Internally, being a relational database we’ll use SQL to insert, query and manipulate the data.

Lessons in this unit:

0:	Introduction
1:	▶︎ Introduction to PostgreSQL
2:	How to install PostgreSQL on macOS
3:	How to create a PostgreSQL database
4:	Navigating Databases in PostgreSQL
5:	PostgreSQL User Permissions
6:	Tables and Data Types
7:	Where to host a PostgreSQL database
8:	PostgreSQL vs MySQL
9:	Troubleshooting PostgreSQL
10:	Vercel Postgres, no transactions?
11:	Set up Lucia Auth for local Postgres DB vs Vercel Postgres
12:	Connect to Postgres local vs Vercel Postgres with Kysely