Chapter 5. Advanced Postgres SQL Features

Table of Contents

Inheritance

Non-Atomic Values

Time Travel

More Advanced Features

Having covered the basics of using Postgres SQL to access your data, we will now discuss those features of Postgres that distinguish it from conventional data managers. These features include inheritance, time travel and non-atomic data values (array- and set-valued attributes). Examples in this section can also be found in advance.sql in the tutorial directory. (Refer to Chapter 4 for how to use it.)