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PostgreSQL 14 Administration Cookbook

By : Simon Riggs, Gianni Ciolli
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Book Image

PostgreSQL 14 Administration Cookbook

5 (1)
By: Simon Riggs, Gianni Ciolli

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 14 allows you to scale up your PostgreSQL infrastructure. With this book, you'll take a step-by-step, recipe-based approach to effective PostgreSQL administration. This book will get you up and running with all the latest features of PostgreSQL 14 while helping you explore the entire database ecosystem. You’ll learn how to tackle a variety of problems and pain points you may face as a database administrator such as creating tables, managing views, improving performance, and securing your database. As you make progress, the book will draw attention to important topics such as monitoring roles, validating backups, regular maintenance, and recovery of your PostgreSQL 14 database. This will help you understand roles, ensuring high availability, concurrency, and replication. Along with updated recipes, this book touches upon important areas like using generated columns, TOAST compression, PostgreSQL on the cloud, and much more. By the end of this PostgreSQL book, you’ll have gained the knowledge you need to manage your PostgreSQL 14 database efficiently, both in the cloud and on-premise.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)

PostgreSQL in the cloud

Like many other systems, PostgreSQL is available in the "cloud" as a Database as a Service (DbaaS). These services create and manage databases for you, with high availability and backup included. So its less work, but not zero work, and you still have responsibilities…which you will see later.

Getting ready

We will select EDB's BigAnimal as an example of a PostgreSQL cloud service, since EDB has the largest number of contributors to open source PostgreSQL, over the longest period.

EDB's BigAnimal creates clusters within your own cloud account, allowing you to understand and control the costs you incur when running PostgreSQL. So, the first step is to login into your host cloud account: https://www.biganimal.com/.

How to do it…

Using EDB's BigAnimal as a specific example, navigate through these steps:

  1. If you don't have an account, you can sign in using the Free Trial at http://www.biganimal.com...