Postgres

DEV INSTALL

• use mh to install postgres and libpqxx to /usr/local

mh-install-postgres

• set up a linux user named "postgres"

# On gentoo:
sudo useradd postgres
# On ubuntu:
sudo adduser postgres
# Put the password in private

• set up a data folder where postgres will put all its data and its log

# Standardize on [/home/m/development/postgres], but always consider symlinking to a large/redundant location.
# Here, we are choosing to use a larger RAID drive.
# WARNING NTFS will not let you chown a folder (you'd have to mount the whole thing as the target owner).  
# So on viper, I had to use the tiny primary drive directly, no symlink to ~m/bigdata.  Fuck off.
mkdir /spiceflow/softraid/development/postgres
cd ~/development && ln -s /spiceflow/softraid/development/postgres postgres
sudo chown -R postgres:postgres postgres /spiceflow/softraid/development/postgres
sudo chmod g+x /spiceflow/softraid/development # and any other parent that is missing this bit, so postgres user can cd to its folder

# We must init the data folder as a postgres "database cluster"
su postgres -c '/usr/local/bin/initdb -D /home/m/development/postgres/data'

START SERVER

Use mh-start-postgres to start postgres (if the server is not already running):

mh-start-postgres

ADD A USER + DB

Use mh-add-postgres-db to add a user (aka role) and matching database. The user only has access to that db (best practice).

mh-add-postgres-db [name] [pw]

NOSQL via JSON

GORGEOUS POSTGRES JSON QUERY! inject blobs of JSON, then you can crack open the json inside a cell!

   CREATE TABLE stocks (
     id integer NOT NULL,
     board_id integer NOT NULL,
     data jsonb
   );
   INSERT INTO stocks VALUES (1, 1, '{"symbol": "GOOG", "tags": ["hot", "trending"], "owned": true}');

   # returns count of data that HAS the field ingredients
   SELECT count(*) FROM stocks WHERE data ? 'ingredients';

   # ->> will return the property as integer or text (the parsed form of the attribute).
   SELECT * FROM stocks WHERE data->>'owned' = 'true';         # if data.owned == true

   # -> will return the attribute as a JSON object
   SELECT jsonb_array_elements_text(data->'tags') as tag FROM stocks WHERE id = 1;
   # returns the actual tag values, eg:
       tag
       --------------
       Improvements
       Office
       (2 rows)

   # NEXT: EXPLORE INDEXING!
   https://blog.codeship.com/unleash-the-power-of-storing-json-in-postgres/