PostgreSQL High Performance Cookbook - Softcover

Chauhan, Chitij; Kumar, Dinesh

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1785284339 ISBN 13: 9781785284335

Publisher: Packt Publishing, 2017

Synopsis

Get to know effective ways to improve PostgreSQL's performance and master query optimization, and database monitoring.

About This Book

• Perform essential database tasks such as benchmarking the database and optimizing the server's memory usage
• Learn ways to improve query performance and optimize the PostgreSQL server
• Explore a wide range of high availability and replication mechanisms to build robust, highly available, scalable, and fault-tolerant PostgreSQL databases

Who This Book Is For

If you are a developer or administrator with limited PostgreSQL knowledge and want to develop your skills with this great open source database, then this book is ideal for you. Learning how to enhance the database performance is always an exciting topic to everyone, and this book will show you enough ways to enhance the database performance.

What You Will Learn

• Build replication strategies for homogeneous and heterogeneous databases
• Test and build a powerful machine with multiple bench marking techniques
• Get to know a few SQL injection techniques
• Find out how to manage the replication using multiple tools
• Benchmark the database server using multiple strategies
• Work with the query processing algorithms and their internal behaviors
• Build a proper plan to upgrade or migrate to PostgreSQL from other databases
• See the essential database load balancing techniques and the various partitioning approaches PostgreSQL provides
• Learn memory optimization techniques and database server configurations

In Detail

About this title

About the Author

Dinesh Kumar is an enthusiastic open source developer and has written several open source tools for PostgreSQL. He recently announced pgBucket a brand-new job scheduler for PostgreSQL. He is also a frequent blogger (manojadinesh.blogpsot.com), where he talks more about PostgreSQL. He is currently working as Senior Database Engineer in OpenSCG and building the PostgreSQL cloud operations. He has 6+ years of experience as an Oralce, PostgreSQL database administrator and developer, and is currently focused on PostgreSQL.

Thanks to my loving parents, Sreenivasulu & Vanamma who raised me from a small village called Viruvuru, which is in the Nellore district of India. Thanks to my loving wife, Manoja, who enlightens my life with her wonderful support. Also, thanks to my friend Baji Shaik and coordinators Mayur Pawanikar and Nitin Dasan for their excellent support. Finally, thanks to every PostgreSQL contributor, author, and blogger.

Edition details

• Publisher: Packt Publishing
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1785284339
• ISBN 13: 9781785284335
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 360