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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

Tracking important metrics over time

The pg_statviz extension can take snapshots of important PostgreSQL cumulative and dynamic statistics so you can track them over time, perform analyses, and produce visualizations to aid your understanding of your server’s workload. The key benefit of this extension is that it’s very lightweight and does not require a module in shared_preload_libraries – therefore, installation does not require a server restart. Finally, it enables this analysis without the overhead of external tools or storage such as Prometheus, Logstash, or Elasticsearch.

Getting ready

You can install the extension by downloading it from the PostgreSQL community repositories with your Linux distribution’s package manager by installing the package pg_statviz_extension. Alternatively, you can install it from PGXN (the PostgreSQL Extension Network).

Then the extension must be enabled in the desired database through the CREATE EXTENSION command...