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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

Using pgAdmin for DBA tasks

In this recipe, we will show you how to use pgAdmin for some administration tasks in your database. pgAdmin is one of the two graphical interfaces that we introduced in the Using graphical administration tools recipe in Chapter 1, First Steps.

Getting ready

You should have already installed pgAdmin as part of the Using graphical administration tools recipe of Chapter 1, First Steps, which includes website pointers. If you haven’t done so, please read it now.

Remember to install pgAdmin 4, which is the last generation of the software; the previous one, pgAdmin 3, is no longer supported and hasn’t been for a few years, so it will give various errors on PostgreSQL 10 and above.

How to do it…

The first task of a DBA is to get access to the database and get a first glance at its contents. In that respect, we have already learned how to create a connection, access the dashboard, and display some database statistics. We...