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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

The PostgreSQL superuser

A PostgreSQL superuser is a user that bypasses all permission checks, except the right to log in. Superuser is a dangerous privilege and should not be used carelessly. Many cloud databases do not allow this level of privilege to be granted at all. It is normal to place strict controls on users of this type. If you are using PostgreSQL in a cloud service, then please read the Setting up cloud security using predefined roles recipe instead.

In this recipe, you will learn how to grant a user the right to become a superuser.

How to do it…

Follow the next steps to add or remove superuser privileges for any user:

  • A user becomes a superuser when they are created with the SUPERUSER attribute set:
    CREATE USER username SUPERUSER;
    
  • A user can be deprived of their superuser status by removing the SUPERUSER attribute using this command:
    ALTER USER username NOSUPERUSER;
    
  • A user can be restored to superuser...