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PostgreSQL 10 High Performance - Third Edition

By : Enrico Pirozzi
Book Image

PostgreSQL 10 High Performance - Third Edition

By: Enrico Pirozzi

Overview of this book

PostgreSQL database servers have a common set of problems that they encounter as their usage gets heavier and requirements get more demanding. Peek into the future of your PostgreSQL 10 database's problems today. Know the warning signs to look for and how to avoid the most common issues before they even happen. Surprisingly, most PostgreSQL database applications evolve in the same way—choose the right hardware, tune the operating system and server memory use, optimize queries against the database and CPUs with the right indexes, and monitor every layer, from hardware to queries, using tools from inside and outside PostgreSQL. Also, using monitoring insight, PostgreSQL database applications continuously rework the design and configuration. On reaching the limits of a single server, they break things up; connection pooling, caching, partitioning, replication, and parallel queries can all help handle increasing database workloads. By the end of this book, you will have all the knowledge you need to design, run, and manage your PostgreSQL solution while ensuring high performance and high availability
Table of Contents (18 chapters)

Windows monitoring tools

The monitoring tools available on Windows have a slightly different balance of strengths and weaknesses compared to the traditional Unix ones. You can't easily run them directly from the command line, and there are some additional steps required before any data can be saved. On the upside, the graphing capabilities are fully integrated.

Task Manager

The simplest way to monitor what's happening live on a Windows server is to use the Task Manager, available by right-clicking on the Start bar or by hitting Ctrl + Shift + Esc. This provides a similar view to the Unix top utility.

Sysinternals tools...