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PostgreSQL – TRUNCATE TABLE Command The PostgreSQL TRUNCATE TABLE command is used to delete complete data from an existing table. You can also use DROP TABLE command to delete complete table but it would remove complete table structure from the database and you would need to re-create this table once again if you wish to […]

PostgreSQL – ALTER TABLE Command The PostgreSQL ALTER TABLE command is used to add, delete or modify columns in an existing table. You would also use ALTER TABLE command to add and drop various constraints on an existing table. Syntax The basic syntax of ALTER TABLE to add a new column in an existing table […]

PostgreSQL – INDEXES Indexes are special lookup tables that the database search engine can use to speed up data retrieval. Simply put, an index is a pointer to data in a table. An index in a database is very similar to an index in the back of a book. For example, if you want to […]