Book description
Discover efficient ways to administer, monitor, replicate, and handle your PostgreSQL databases
In Detail
With more than a quarter of a century of development and innovation, PostgreSQL has gained a reputation for stability, robustness, and ease of use. The variety of features available within PostgreSQL makes it a powerful tool for your professional relational database infrastructure.
With the database administrator in mind, this compact, easy-to-read, and practically-oriented book will make your daily handling of PostgreSQL more efficient and rewarding. You will learn about optimization, bottleneck detection, backup and recovery, replication, logfile management, indexing, and much more in a systematic and carefully structured manner. This invaluable guide will enable you to develop the fundamental skills required to deploy PostgreSQL in order to efficiently manage your databases.
What You Will Learn
- Perform routine backups and restore your databases safely
- Set up replication quickly and easily
- Handle logfiles and extract information from PostgreSQL
- Monitor PostgreSQL and integrate it into the existing infrastructure
- Build desktop applications using C#
- Optimize PostgreSQL for high speed and tune your database parameters
- Adjust your user permissions and lock out intruders
- Detect bottlenecks and find missing indexes with ease
Table of contents
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PostgreSQL Administration Essentials
- Table of Contents
- PostgreSQL Administration Essentials
- Credits
- About the Author
- About the Reviewers
- www.PacktPub.com
- Preface
- 1. Installing PostgreSQL
- 2. Indexing and Performance Tuning
- 3. Users and Permissions
- 4. Managing Logfiles
- 5. Backup and Recovery
- 6. Handling Replication and Improving Performance
- 7. Monitoring PostgreSQL
- Index
Product information
- Title: PostgreSQL Administration Essentials
- Author(s):
- Release date: October 2014
- Publisher(s): Packt Publishing
- ISBN: 9781783988983
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