Preface

PostgreSQL is an incredibly flexible and dependable open source relational database. Harnessing its power will make your applications more reliable and extensible without increasing costs. Using PostgreSQL's advanced features will save you work and increase performance, once you've discovered how to set it up.

PostgreSQL for Data Architects will teach you everything you need to learn in order to get a scalable and optimized PostgreSQL server up and running.

The book starts with basic concepts (such as installing PostgreSQL from source) and covers theoretical aspects (such as concurrency and transaction management). After this, you'll learn how to set up replication, use load balancing to scale horizontally, and troubleshoot errors.

As you ...

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