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PostgreSQL Administration Cookbook, 9.5/9.6 Edition - Third Edition

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PostgreSQL Administration Cookbook, 9.5/9.6 Edition - Third Edition

Overview of this book

PostgreSQL is a powerful opensource database management system; now recognized as the expert's choice for a wide range of applications, it has an enviable reputation for performance and stability. PostgreSQL provides an integrated feature set comprising relational database features, object-relational, text search, Geographical Info Systems, analytical tools for big data and JSON/XML document management. Starting with short and simple recipes, you will soon dive into core features, such as configuration, server control, tables, and data. You will tackle a variety of problems a database administrator usually encounters, from creating tables to managing views, from improving performance to securing your database, and from using monitoring tools to using storage engines. Recipes based on important topics such as high availability, concurrency, replication, backup and recovery, as well as diagnostics and troubleshooting are also given special importance. By the end of this book, you will have all the knowledge you need to run, manage, and maintain PostgreSQL efficiently.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)

Introduction

Performance and concurrency are two problems that are often tightly coupled -- when concurrency grows, performance usually degrades, in some cases a lot. If you take care of performance problems, you can achieve better concurrency.

In this chapter, we will show you how to find slow queries and also how to find queries that make other queries slow.

Performance tuning, unfortunately, is still not an exact science, so you may also encounter a performance problem not covered by any of the given methods.

We will also show you how to get help in the final recipe, Reporting performance problems, in case none of the other recipes covered here work.