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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)

Actions for heavy users of temporary tables

If you are a heavy user of temporary tables in your applications, then there are some additional actions that you may need to perform.

How to do it...

There are four main things to check, which are as follows:

  1. Make sure you run VACUUM on system tables, or enable autovacuum to do this for you.
  2. Monitor running queries to see how many temporary files are active and how large they are.
  3. Tune the memory parameters. Think about increasing the temp_buffers parameter, but be careful not to over-allocate memory by doing so.
  1. Separate the temp table's I/O. In a query-intensive system, you may find that reads/writes to temporary files exceed reads/writes on permanent data tables and indexes...