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PostgreSQL 16 Administration Cookbook

By : Gianni Ciolli, Boriss Mejías, Jimmy Angelakos, Vibhor Kumar, Simon Riggs
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PostgreSQL 16 Administration Cookbook

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By: Gianni Ciolli, Boriss Mejías, Jimmy Angelakos, Vibhor Kumar, Simon Riggs

Overview of this book

PostgreSQL has seen a huge increase in its customer base in the past few years and is becoming one of the go-to solutions for anyone who has a database-specific challenge. This PostgreSQL book touches on all the fundamentals of Database Administration in a problem-solution format. It is intended to be the perfect desk reference guide. This new edition focuses on recipes based on the new PostgreSQL 16 release. The additions include handling complex batch loading scenarios with the SQL MERGE statement, security improvements, running Postgres on Kubernetes or with TPA and Ansible, and more. This edition also focuses on certain performance gains, such as query optimization, and the acceleration of specific operations, such as sort. It will help you understand roles, ensuring high availability, concurrency, and replication. It also draws your attention to aspects like validating backups, recovery, monitoring, and scaling aspects. This book will act as a one-stop solution to all your real-world database administration challenges. By the end of this book, you will be able to manage, monitor, and replicate your PostgreSQL 16 database for efficient administration and maintenance with the best practices from experts.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
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Index

Backup and Recovery

Most people admit that backups are essential, though they also devote a very small amount of time to thinking about the topic.

The first recipe in this chapter is about understanding and controlling crash recovery. You need to understand what happens if a database server crashes so that you can understand whether you need to perform a recovery operation.

The next recipe is all about planning. That’s really the best place to start before you perform backups.

The physical backup mechanisms were initially written by Simon Riggs (one of the authors of this book) for PostgreSQL 8.0 in 2004, and have been supported by him ever since, with ever-increasing help from the community as Postgres’s popularity grew. 2ndQuadrant and EDB have also been providing database recovery services since 2004, and regrettably, many people have needed them as a result of missing or damaged backups.

It is important to note that, in the last few years, the native...