Postgres and Open Source Experts

PostgreSQL offers a built-in ANY() function that accepts an array as an argument, checks the presence of the given value in the array, and returns a Boolean true or false.

In Postgres, the comma-separated syntax is used in the ORDER BY clause to sort the table’s data based on multiple columns.

To get a month name from a date, specify the date/timestamp as the first and “MONTH” as the second argument to the TO_CHAR() function.

In PostgreSQL, the pg_size_pretty() function retrieves the size of the database object in a human-readable format, such as KB, MB, etc.

LPAD() or “left padding” is a built-in function in Postgres which fills a string of a specific length with a substring. It fills/pads the given string from the left side.

In Postgres, the RANDOM() is an in-built function that generates a random numeric value between “0(inclusive)” and “1(exclusive)” or between a specific range.

To format a timestamp, specify a timestamp and a valid format as arguments to the Postgres TO_CHAR() function.

Postgres allows us to set a TIMESTAMP as the column’s default value. For this purpose, the DEFAULT keyword is used with the column name at the time of table creation.

To compare arrays in PostgreSQL, the equality operators, ordering operators, containment operators, and overlap operators are used.

In PostgreSQL, to extract epoch time from the current or specific time, the EXTRACT() function is used with the EPOCH argument.