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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

Regular Maintenance

In these busy times, many people believe if it ain’t broken, don’t fix it. I believe that too, but it isn’t an excuse for not taking action to maintain your database servers and be sure that nothing will break.

Database maintenance is about making your database run smoothly.

PostgreSQL prefers regular maintenance, so please read the Planning maintenance recipe in this chapter for more information.

We recognize that you’re here for a reason and are looking for a quick solution to your needs. You’re probably thinking – Fix the problem first, and I’ll plan later. So, off we go!

PostgreSQL provides a utility command named VACUUM, which is a reference to a garbage collector that sweeps up all of the bad things and fixes them – or at least most of them. That’s the single most important thing you need to remember to do – I say single because VACUUM is closely connected to the ANALYZE...