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Learn PostgreSQL - Second Edition

By : Luca Ferrari, Enrico Pirozzi
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Book Image

Learn PostgreSQL - Second Edition

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By: Luca Ferrari, Enrico Pirozzi

Overview of this book

The latest edition of this PostgreSQL book will help you to start using PostgreSQL from absolute scratch, helping you to quickly understand the internal workings of the database. With a structured approach and practical examples, go on a journey that covers the basics, from SQL statements and how to run server-side programs, to configuring, managing, securing, and optimizing database performance. This new edition will not only help you get to grips with all the recent changes within the PostgreSQL ecosystem but will also dig deeper into concepts like partitioning and replication with a fresh set of examples. The book is also equipped with Docker images for each chapter which makes the learning experience faster and easier. Starting with the absolute basics of databases, the book sails through to advanced concepts like window functions, logging, auditing, extending the database, configuration, partitioning, and replication. It will also help you seamlessly migrate your existing database system to PostgreSQL and contains a dedicated chapter on disaster recovery. Each chapter ends with practice questions to test your learning at regular intervals. By the end of this book, you will be able to install, configure, manage, and develop applications against a PostgreSQL database.
Table of Contents (22 chapters)
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Index

Useful Tools and Extensions

This chapter is to be considered an appendix to the book. In this chapter, we will talk about some tools and extensions that allow a Database Administrator (DBA) to maximize the efficiency of their work by minimizing the effort needed to complete it.

We will talk about these extensions:

  • pg_trgm
  • Foreign data wrappers and the postgres_fdw extension

These are two of the official extensions for PostgreSQL. A site that can be very useful for finding extensions available for PostgreSQL is https://pgxn.org/.

In addition to extensions, we will also talk about other useful tools for the PostgreSQL DBA. There are dozens of tools available for PostgreSQL, but in this chapter, we will talk about:

  • pgbackrest: a powerful tool useful to manage disaster recovery and point-in-time recovery (PITR)
  • pgloader: a useful tool to easily migrate from MySQL, SQLite, and MS SQL to PostgreSQL; in this section, we will show an example...