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PostgreSQL 10 High Performance - Third Edition

By : Enrico Pirozzi
Book Image

PostgreSQL 10 High Performance - Third Edition

By: Enrico Pirozzi

Overview of this book

PostgreSQL database servers have a common set of problems that they encounter as their usage gets heavier and requirements get more demanding. Peek into the future of your PostgreSQL 10 database's problems today. Know the warning signs to look for and how to avoid the most common issues before they even happen. Surprisingly, most PostgreSQL database applications evolve in the same way—choose the right hardware, tune the operating system and server memory use, optimize queries against the database and CPUs with the right indexes, and monitor every layer, from hardware to queries, using tools from inside and outside PostgreSQL. Also, using monitoring insight, PostgreSQL database applications continuously rework the design and configuration. On reaching the limits of a single server, they break things up; connection pooling, caching, partitioning, replication, and parallel queries can all help handle increasing database workloads. By the end of this book, you will have all the knowledge you need to design, run, and manage your PostgreSQL solution while ensuring high performance and high availability
Table of Contents (18 chapters)

Database-wide totals

Many of the same pieces of data available at the table level are also summarized per database. You can get the following information out of pg_stat_database and use it in similar ways to pg_stat_user_tables and pg_statio_user_tables:

    SELECT datname,blks_read,blks_hit,tup_returned,tup_fetched,tup_inserted ,tup_updated,tup_deleted FROM pg_stat_database;
  

In addition, there are some useful transaction commit statistics available, as well as a count of the total active client backend connections active for each database:

    SELECT datname,numbackends,xact_commit,xact_rollback from pg_stat_database;