This topic walks you through how to create, connect to, develop, and manage an AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL instance.

Instance editions and specifications

The first time you use AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL, we recommend that you read the following topics first:

Procedure

You can perform the following operations on an AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL instance:

  1. Create an AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL instance
  2. Optional:Configure an IP address whitelist
    Note This step is optional. To connect to a database by using an integrated development environment (IDE), you must configure an IP address whitelist. To connect to a database by using Data Management (DMS), you can skip this step.
  3. Create a privileged account
  4. Connect to a database
  5. Write data to a database
  6. Scale an instance