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PostgreSQL 11 Administration Cookbook

By : Simon Riggs, Gianni Ciolli, Sudheer Kumar Meesala
Book Image

PostgreSQL 11 Administration Cookbook

By: Simon Riggs, Gianni Ciolli, Sudheer Kumar Meesala

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 11 allows you to scale up your PostgreSQL infrastructure. This book takes a step-by-step, recipe-based approach to effective PostgreSQL administration. The book will introduce you to new features such as logical replication, native table partitioning, additional query parallelism, and much more to help you to understand and control, crash recovery and plan backups. You will learn how to tackle a variety of problems and pain points for any database administrator such as creating tables, managing views, improving performance, and securing your database. As you make steady progress, the book will draw attention to important topics such as monitoring roles, backup, and recovery of your PostgreSQL 11 database to help you understand roles and produce a summary of log files, ensuring high availability, concurrency, and replication. By the end of this book, you will have the necessary knowledge to manage your PostgreSQL 11 database efficiently.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
About Packt
Contributors
Preface
Index

Real-time viewing using pgAdmin or OmniDB


You can also use a GUI tool such as pgAdmin or OmniDB, which we discussed for the first time in Chapter 1, First Steps, to get a quick view of what is going on in the database.

Getting ready

If you use pgAdmin, for better control, you need to install the adminpack extension in the destination database by issuing the following command:

CREATE EXTENSION adminpack;

This extension is a part of the additionally supplied modules of PostgreSQL (also known as contrib). It provides several administration functions that pgAdmin (and other tools) can use in order to manage, control, and monitor a Postgres server from a remote location.

How to do it…

In this section, we will be covering pgAdmin and OmniDB usage.

Using pgAdmin

This section illustrates the pgAdmin tool.

Once you have installed adminpack, connect to the database server; this will open a window similar to the one that's shown in the following screenshot, where you can see a general view plus information...