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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)

Chapter 4: Server Control

The recipes in this chapter will show you how to control the database server directly. Database servers in the cloud do not give access to the privileges that are required to perform many of the actions listed in this chapter, but there are things worth considering if you want to understand what is happening within.

This chapter covers the following recipes:

  • Overview of controlling the database server
  • Starting the database server manually
  • Stopping the server safely and quickly
  • Stopping the server in an emergency
  • Reloading the server configuration files
  • Restarting the server quickly
  • Preventing new connections
  • Restricting users to only one session each
  • Pushing users off the system
  • Deciding on a design for multitenancy
  • Using multiple schemas
  • Giving users their own private databases
  • Running multiple servers on one system
  • Setting up a connection pool
  • Accessing multiple servers using the same host...