Chapter 4. Server Control
In this chapter, we will cover the following recipes:
- Starting the database server manually
- Stopping the server safely and quickly
- Stopping the server in an emergency
- Reloading the server configuration files
- Restarting the server quickly
- Preventing new connections
- Restricting users to only one session each
- Pushing users off the system
- Deciding on a design for multitenancy
- Using multiple schemas
- Giving users their own private database
- Running multiple servers on one system
- Setting up a connection pool
- Accessing multiple servers using the same host and port
Introduction
PostgreSQL consists of a set of server processes, the group leader of which is named the postmaster. Starting the server is the act of creating these processes, and stopping ...
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