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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)

Hot logical backups of all databases

If you have more than one database in your PostgreSQL server, you may want to take a logical backup of all the databases at the same time.

How to do it...

Our recommendation is that you do exactly what you did for one database to each database in your cluster.

You can run individual dumps in parallel if you want to speed things up.

Once this is complete, dump the global information also using the following:

pg_dumpall -g

How it works...

To back up all databases, you may be told you need to use the pg_dumpall utility. The following are...