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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)

Trending software

It's important to know how all these low-level tools work in order to use the more complicated ones, and, when your system is in trouble, there's no substitute for the really detailed, second-by-second information that tools like vmstat and top deliver. But most of the time, what people prefer is something more like what sar provides a basic summary every few minutes, but with graphs, and if you can integrate in the database statistics too, so that everything is visible on a unified timeline, then you're really in a good position to note trends in your server's use.

Types of monitoring and trending software

One of the things that make this area of software complicated to sort through is...