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    Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL is a fully-managed database service that helps you set up, maintain, manage, and administer your PostgreSQL relational databases on Google Cloud Platform.

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    Guides

  • Create instances

  • Connection Overview

  • Enable and disable high availability on an instance

  • Create and manage PostgreSQL databases

  • Create and manage PostgreSQL users

  • Export and import using pg_dump and pg_restore

  • Export and import using CSV files

  • Create backups

  • Create read replicas

    • Reference

  • gcloud sql command-line

  • Use the Cloud SQL Admin API

  • REST API

  • Best practices

  • Performance tips

  • Authorize requests

  • Configure VPC Service Controls

  • Cloud SQL Admin API error messages

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  • Quotas and limits

  • Troubleshoot

  • Cloud SQL feature support by database engine

  • Release notes

  • Billing questions

  • Getting support

  • Security Bulletins

    • Training and tutorials

    Try Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL tutorials, courses, and self-paced training from Google Cloud Skills Boost.

    Tutorial

    Using Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL with Ruby on Rails 5

    Learn how to connect a Ruby on Rails 5 app to Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL.

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    Connecting to Cloud SQL with Cloud Functions

    Learn how to connect to Cloud SQL from Cloud Functions.

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    Use cases

    Explore use cases, reference architectures, whitepapers, best practices, and industry solutions.

    Using a DLP Proxy to interact with Cloud SQL

    Learn how you can use a proxy that passes the results of a query through Cloud Data Loss Prevention (Cloud DLP) so the results returned are tokenized or de-identified.

    Security DLP

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    Deploying Pega using Compute Engine and Cloud SQL

    Learn how to deploy Pega Platform, which is a business process management and customer relationship management (CRM) platform with Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL.

    CRM Reference architecture

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    Production launch checklist

    This checklist provides recommended activities to complete for launching a commercial application that uses Cloud SQL. This checklist focuses on Cloud SQL-specific activities.

    Production Launch

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    Primer

    Data residency overview

    Learn how to use Cloud SQL to enforce data residency requirements for data.

    Data residency data

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    Code samples

    Dive into coding with examples that demonstrate how to use and connect Google Cloud services.

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    Python SQLAlchemy

    Use SQLAlchemy with your Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL database

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    Node.js sample

    Connecting to your Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL database in Node.js

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    PHP PDO

    Connecting your Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL database using PHP PDO

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    Go web app sample

    Simple examples of connecting to Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL using Go

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    .NET sample

    This sample application demonstrates how to store data in Google Cloud SQL with a PostgreSQL database when running in Google App Engine Flexible Environment.

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    Java servlet

    Connecting to Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL from a Java application

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    Videos

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