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Mastering PostgreSQL 11 - Second Edition

By : Hans-Jürgen Schönig
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Mastering PostgreSQL 11 - Second Edition

By: Hans-Jürgen Schönig

Overview of this book

This second edition of Mastering PostgreSQL 11 helps you build dynamic database solutions for enterprise applications using the latest release of PostgreSQL, which enables database analysts to design both the physical and technical aspects of the system architecture with ease. This book begins with an introduction to the newly released features in PostgreSQL 11 to help you build efficient and fault-tolerant PostgreSQL applications. You’ll examine all of the advanced aspects of PostgreSQL in detail, including logical replication, database clusters, performance tuning, monitoring, and user management. You will also work with the PostgreSQL optimizer, configuring PostgreSQL for high speed, and see how to move from Oracle to PostgreSQL. As you progress through the chapters, you will cover transactions, locking, indexes, and optimizing queries to improve performance. Additionally, you’ll learn to manage network security and explore backups and replications, while understanding the useful extensions of PostgreSQL so that you can optimize the speed and performance of large databases. By the end of this book, you will be able to use your database to its utmost capacity by implementing advanced administrative tasks with ease.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
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PostgreSQL Overview

Q&A

What is the most important feature of PostgreSQL 11?

Actually, this is hard to tell. It really depends on how you are using the database and which features are the most important to your application. Everybody has a personal favorite, however. In my case, it is parallel index creation, which will be really important to customers running giant databases. Still, it is up to you to decide what you like most and what you don't like.

Does PostgreSQL 11 work on my platform?

PostgreSQL 11 works on all common platforms, including but not limited to Linux, Windows, Solaris, AIX, and macOS. The community tries to cover as many platforms as possible so that it doesn't exclude people from using PostgreSQL. For most common systems, PostgreSQL will even be prepackaged.

Did the license model change?

No, nothing has changed and most likely nothing ever will.

When can we expect PostgreSQL 12?

Usually, a major release can be expected once a year, so the next major release, that is, PostgreSQL 12, will be in the fall of 2019.