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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

5 (1)
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

Replication concepts

In this recipe, we do not solve any specific replication problem—or, rather, we try to prevent the generic problem of getting confused when discussing replication. We do that by clarifying in advance the various concepts related to replication.

Indeed, replication technology can be confusing. You might be forgiven for thinking that people have a reason to keep it that way. Our observation is that there are many techniques, each with its own advocates, and their strengths and weaknesses are often hotly debated.

There are some simple, underlying concepts that can help you understand the various options available. The terms used here are designed to avoid favoring any particular technique, and we’ve used standard industry terms whenever available.

Topics

Database replication is the term we use to describe technology that’s used to maintain a copy of a set of data on a remote system.

There are usually two main reasons for you...