Enterprise geodatabases are collections of objects—such as tables, views, and stored procedures—in a relational database management system.
Because the enterprise geodatabase is stored in a database, you (or someone else in your organization) must be a PostgreSQL database administrator. The database administrator and the geodatabase administrator work together to create and maintain enterprise geodatabases.
The database administrator performs database tasks, such as creating and configuring the database, creating users, granting the users database permissions, creating and testing backups, and upgrading the database.
If you are the geodatabase administrator, you need to know how to do the following:
- Create a geodatabase in the PostgreSQL database that the database administrator creates. Alternatively, the database administrator can create the database and geodatabase.
- Manage connections to the geodatabase. The geodatabase administrator can monitor, block, and drop connections.
- Perform geodatabase maintenance tasks such as compressing the geodatabase if you use traditional versioning, updating statistics on geodatabase system tables, and upgrading the geodatabase to take advantage of new functionality and fixes.
You can create a geodatabase in an existing PostgreSQL database and continue to store database tables and views (in other words, those not registered with the geodatabase) alongside geodatabase data. You can view and publish both types of data in ArcGIS AllSource, but be aware of the following:
- Geodatabase data can be edited in ArcGIS AllSource when you access it through a database connection, but database data cannot. To edit database data, you must publish an editable web feature layer that references the data in the database.
Tip:
There are differences in how data is stored and accessed in each supported database management system, which affect how you interact with the database and the geodatabase objects in it. For this reason, enterprise geodatabase management help has been grouped into sections based on the database management system. This section of the help provides information about administering an enterprise geodatabase in a PostgreSQL. If you access a topic using the search, be sure you are reading the topic that applies to the database management system you are using.