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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

Monitoring the PostgreSQL message log

In any production environment, it’s always prudent to monitor log files, not only for warning and error detection but also for performance trend analysis. PostgreSQL can output an overwhelming amount of logs per day, but we don’t have to scan through every line ourselves – we can use a log analyzer such as pgBadger to generate summaries and reports, which can give us insights into what has happened inside our server for a specific time period.

Getting ready

Most Linux distribution PostgreSQL packages, as well as those from the official community repository, have log file rotation already configured as default. pgBadger can also be installed from your default package manager, either from the community repositories or your distribution’s own packages.

We also need to tweak some Postgres settings, such as setting log_line_prefix to any format we like, as long as it at least specifies %t (time stamp without...