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PostgreSQL 10 Administration Cookbook - Fourth Edition

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PostgreSQL 10 Administration Cookbook - Fourth Edition

Overview of this book

PostgreSQL is a powerful, open source database management system with an enviable reputation for high performance and stability. With many new features in its arsenal, PostgreSQL 10 allows users to scale up their PostgreSQL infrastructure. This book takes a step-by-step, recipe-based approach to effective PostgreSQL administration. Throughout this book, you will be introduced to these new features such as logical replication, native table partitioning, additional query parallelism, and much more. You will learn how to tackle a variety of problems that are basically the pain points for any database administrator - from creating tables to managing views, from improving performance to securing your database. More importantly, the book pays special attention to topics such as monitoring roles, backup, and recovery of your PostgreSQL 10 database, ensuring high availability, concurrency, and replication. By the end of this book, you will know everything you need to know to be the go-to PostgreSQL expert in your organization.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)

Speeding up queries without rewriting them

Often, you either can't or don't want to rewrite the query. However, you can still try and speed it up through any of the techniques discussed here.

How to do it...

By now, we assume that you've looked at various problems already, so the following are more advanced ideas for you to try.

Increasing work_mem

For queries involving large sorts or for join queries it may be useful to increase the amount of working memory that can be used for query execution. Try setting:

SET work_mem = '1TB';

Then, run EXPLAIN...