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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

Improving the performance of logical backup/recovery

Performance is often a concern in any medium-sized or large database.

Backup performance is often a delicate issue because resource usage may need to be limited to remain within certain boundaries. There may also be a restriction on the maximum runtime for the backup – for example, a backup that runs every Sunday.

Again, restore performance may be more important than backup performance, even if backup is the more obvious concern.

In this recipe, we will discuss the performance of logical backup and recovery; the physical case is quite different and is examined in the next recipe.

Getting ready

If performance is a concern or is likely to be, then you should read the Planning backups recipe first.

How to do it…

You can use the -j option to specify the number of parallel processes that pg_dump should use to perform the database backup. This requires that you use the -F d option, which selects...