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PostgreSQL 16 Administration Cookbook

PostgreSQL 16 Administration Cookbook

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

PostgreSQL 16 Administration Cookbook

4.8 (26)
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.
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Loading data from flat files

Loading data into your database is one of the most important tasks. You need to do this accurately and quickly. Here’s how.

Getting ready

For basic loading, COPY works well for many cases, including CSV files, as shown in the last recipe.

If you want advanced functionality for loading, you may wish to try pgloader, which is commonly available in all main software distributions. At the time of writing, the current stable version is 3.6.9. There are many features, but it is stable, with very few new features in recent years.

How to do it...

To load data with pgloader, we need to understand our requirements, so let’s break this down into a step-by-step process, as follows:

  1. Identify the data files and where they are located. Make sure that pgloader is installed in the location of the files.
  2. Identify the table into which you are loading, ensure that you have the permissions to load, and check the available...
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