Chapter 10. Common Administrative Tasks

The administration duties for dealing with a PostgreSQL system can be broken down as follows:

  • Compilation and installation

  • Creating users

  • Assigning rights to users

  • Performing regular database maintenance

  • Performing database backups and restores

  • Performance tuning

Each of these issues requires specific knowledge of key areas of the system. Please refer to the following sections that focus on these areas.

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