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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

Using data compression

As data volumes expand, we often think about whether there are ways to compress data to save space. Many patents have been awarded in the realm of data compression, so the development of open source solutions has been slower than normal. PostgreSQL 14 contains some exciting innovations.

Getting ready

Make sure you’re running Postgres 14+.

Various types of data compression are available for PostgreSQL:

  • Automatic compression of long data values (TOAST)
  • Extensions that offer compressed data types (for example, JSON)
  • Compression of WAL files
  • Dump file compression
  • Base backup compression
  • SSL compression (this is considered insecure, so it’s only used on private networks)
  • GiST and SP-GiST index compression
  • Btree index compression (also known as deduplication)

Only the first three types of compression will be discussed here, but we focus mainly on the parameters that allow us to...