PostgreSQL 11 Administration Cookbook: Over 175 recipes for database administrators to manage enterprise databases - Softcover

Riggs, Simon; Ciolli, Gianni; Meesala, Sudheer Kumar

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1789537584 ISBN 13: 9781789537581

Publisher: Packt Publishing, 2019

Synopsis

A practical guide to administer, monitor and replicate your PostgreSQL 11 database

Key Features

• Study and apply the newly introduced features in PostgreSQL 11
• Tackle any problem in PostgreSQL 11 administration and management
• Catch up on expert techniques for monitoring, fine-tuning, and securing your database

Book Description

PostgreSQL is a powerful, open source database management system with an enviable reputation for high performance and stability. With many new features in its arsenal, PostgreSQL 11 allows you to scale up your PostgreSQL infrastructure. This book takes a step-by-step, recipe-based approach to effective PostgreSQL administration.

The book will introduce you to new features such as logical replication, native table partitioning, additional query parallelism, and much more to help you to understand and control, crash recovery and plan backups. You will learn how to tackle a variety of problems and pain points for any database administrator such as creating tables, managing views, improving performance, and securing your database. As you make steady progress, the book will draw attention to important topics such as monitoring roles, backup, and recovery of your PostgreSQL 11 database to help you understand roles and produce a summary of log files, ensuring high availability, concurrency, and replication.

By the end of this book, you will have the necessary knowledge to manage your PostgreSQL 11 database efficiently.

What You Will Learn:

• Troubleshoot open source PostgreSQL version 11 on various platforms
• Deploy best practices for planning and designing live databases
• Select and implement robust backup and recovery techniques in PostgreSQL 11
• Use pgAdmin or OmniDB to perform database administrator (DBA) tasks
• Adopt efficient replication and high availability techniques in PostgreSQL
• Improve the performance of your PostgreSQL solution

Who this book is for

This book is designed for database administrators, data architects, database developers, or anyone with an interest in planning and running live production databases using PostgreSQL 11. It is also ideal if you're looking for hands-on solutions to any problem associated with PostgreSQL 11 administration. Some experience with handling PostgreSQL databases will be beneficial

About this title

About the Authors

Simon Riggs is a Major Developer of PostgreSQL since 2004. Formerly, Simon was the Founder and CEO of 2ndQuadrant, acquired by EDB in 2020. Simon has contributed widely to PostgreSQL, initiating new projects, contributing ideas, committing many important features as well and working directly with database architects and users on advanced solutions

Gianni Ciolli is Vice President and Field CTO at EDB; he was Global Head of Professional Services at 2ndQuadrant until it was acquired by EDB. Gianni has been a PostgreSQL consultant, trainer, and speaker at many PostgreSQL conferences in Europe and abroad over more than 10 years. He has a PhD in Mathematics from the University of Florence. He has worked with free and Open-Source software since the 1990s and is active in the community. He lives between Frankfurt and London and plays the piano in his spare time

Sudheer Kumar Meesala is a lead architect at Endurance International Group and has spent the last few years designing and building scalable and secure web applications within finance and internet industries. A large part of his job has included decomposing monolithic legacy applications into microservices. This has required a deep understanding of PostgreSQL, Cassandra, and other NoSQL databases. Other key areas of interest are container orchestration, DevOps, and more. He is also an accomplished speaker and trainer. He lives in Bangalore, India, and spends far too much time in traffic jams.

Sheldon Strauch is a twenty-year veteran of software consulting at companies such as IBM, Sears, Ernst & Young, and Kraft Foods. He has a Bachelor's degree in Business Administration and leverages his technical skills to improve business' self-awareness. His interests include data gathering, management, and mining; maps and mapping; business intelligence; and the application of data analysis for continuous improvement. He is currently focused on the development of end-to-end data management and mining at Enova International, a financial services company located in Chicago. In his spare time, he enjoys the performing arts, particularly music, and traveling with his wife Marilyn.

Edition details

• Publisher: Packt Publishing
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1789537584
• ISBN 13: 9781789537581
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 600