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<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> <HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >Concepts</TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.79"><LINK REV="MADE" HREF="mailto:pgsql-docs@postgresql.org"><LINK REL="HOME" TITLE="PostgreSQL 9.2.24 Documentation" HREF="index.html"><LINK REL="UP" TITLE="The SQL Language" HREF="tutorial-sql.html"><LINK REL="PREVIOUS" TITLE="Introduction" HREF="tutorial-sql-intro.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="Creating a New Table" HREF="tutorial-table.html"><LINK REL="STYLESHEET" TYPE="text/css" HREF="stylesheet.css"><META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"><META NAME="creation" CONTENT="2017-11-06T22:43:11"></HEAD ><BODY CLASS="SECT1" ><DIV CLASS="NAVHEADER" ><TABLE SUMMARY="Header navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TH COLSPAN="5" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="index.html" >PostgreSQL 9.2.24 Documentation</A ></TH ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A TITLE="Introduction" HREF="tutorial-sql-intro.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="tutorial-sql.html" ACCESSKEY="U" >Up</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="60%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" >Chapter 2. The <ACRONYM CLASS="ACRONYM" >SQL</ACRONYM > Language</TD ><TD WIDTH="20%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A TITLE="Creating a New Table" HREF="tutorial-table.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><DIV CLASS="SECT1" ><H1 CLASS="SECT1" ><A NAME="TUTORIAL-CONCEPTS" >2.2. Concepts</A ></H1 ><P > <SPAN CLASS="PRODUCTNAME" >PostgreSQL</SPAN > is a <I CLASS="FIRSTTERM" >relational database management system</I > (<ACRONYM CLASS="ACRONYM" >RDBMS</ACRONYM >). That means it is a system for managing data stored in <I CLASS="FIRSTTERM" >relations</I >. Relation is essentially a mathematical term for <I CLASS="FIRSTTERM" >table</I >. The notion of storing data in tables is so commonplace today that it might seem inherently obvious, but there are a number of other ways of organizing databases. Files and directories on Unix-like operating systems form an example of a hierarchical database. A more modern development is the object-oriented database. </P ><P > Each table is a named collection of <I CLASS="FIRSTTERM" >rows</I >. Each row of a given table has the same set of named <I CLASS="FIRSTTERM" >columns</I >, and each column is of a specific data type. Whereas columns have a fixed order in each row, it is important to remember that SQL does not guarantee the order of the rows within the table in any way (although they can be explicitly sorted for display). </P ><P > Tables are grouped into databases, and a collection of databases managed by a single <SPAN CLASS="PRODUCTNAME" >PostgreSQL</SPAN > server instance constitutes a database <I CLASS="FIRSTTERM" >cluster</I >. </P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="NAVFOOTER" ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"><TABLE SUMMARY="Footer navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="tutorial-sql-intro.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="index.html" ACCESSKEY="H" >Home</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="tutorial-table.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >Introduction</TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="tutorial-sql.html" ACCESSKEY="U" >Up</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" >Creating a New Table</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >