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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

Migrating to PostgreSQL

In Chapter 12, Troubleshooting PostgreSQL, we saw how to approach the most common issues related to PostgreSQL troubleshooting. The important thing is to have a systematic approach to tracking down problems, which is exactly what is provided here.

The final chapter of this book is about moving from other databases to PostgreSQL. Many of you might still be suffering from the pain caused by commercial database license costs. I want to give all of those users out there a way out and show you how data can be moved from some proprietary system to PostgreSQL. Moving to PostgreSQL not only makes sense from a financial point of view, but also makes sense if you are looking for more advanced features and more flexibility. PostgreSQL has so much to offer, and at the time of writing, new features are being added daily. The same applies to the number of tools that...