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PostgreSQL 14 Administration Cookbook

PostgreSQL 14 Administration Cookbook

By : Simon Riggs, Gianni Ciolli
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PostgreSQL 14 Administration Cookbook

PostgreSQL 14 Administration Cookbook

4.3 (14)
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.
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Checking whether all users have a secure password

By default, as of PostgreSQL 14, passwords are encrypted using the SCRAM-SHA-256 login method for users, which was added in PostgreSQL 10. Any servers upgrading from earlier versions should upgrade from MD5 to SCRAM-SHA-256 password encryption since the MD5 authentication method is considered insecure for many applications.

For client applications connecting from trusted private networks, either real or a virtual private network (VPN), you may use host-based access, provided you know that the machine on which the application is running is not used by some non-trusted individuals. For remote access over public networks, it may be a better idea to use SSL client certificates. See the later recipe, Using SSL certificates to authenticate, for more on this.

How to do it…

To see which users don't yet have SCRAM-encrypted passwords, use this query:

test2=# select usename,passwd from pg_shadow where passwd
not like ...
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