Mastering PostgreSQL 12: Advanced techniques to build and administer scalable and reliable PostgreSQL database applications, 3rd Edition - Softcover

Hans-Jürgen Schönig

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1838988823 ISBN 13: 9781838988821

Publisher: Packt Publishing - ebooks Account, 2019

Synopsis

Master the capabilities of PostgreSQL 12 such as advanced indexing, high availability, database configuration, database monitoring, and more to efficiently manage and maintain your database

Key Features

• Master advanced concepts of PostgreSQL 12 with real-world examples and sample datasets
• Explore aspects like query parallelism, data replication, database administration, and more
• Extend the functionalities of PostgreSQL instance to suit your organizations needs with minimal effort

Book Description

PostgreSQL has earned a strong reputation for reliability, feature robustness, and performance. This third edition of Mastering PostgreSQL 12 helps you build dynamic database solutions for enterprise applications using the latest release of PostgreSQL, which enables database analysts to design both the physical and technical aspects of the system architecture with ease.

This book begins with an introduction to the newly released features in PostgreSQL 12 to help you build efficient and fault-tolerant PostgreSQL applications. You'll examine all of the advanced aspects of PostgreSQL in detail, including logical replication, database clusters, performance tuning, monitoring, and user management. You will also work with the PostgreSQL optimizer, configuring PostgreSQL for high speed, and see how to move from Oracle to PostgreSQL. As you progress through the chapters, you will cover transactions, locking, indexes, and optimizing queries to improve performance. Additionally, you'll learn to manage network security and explore backups and replications, while understanding the useful extensions of PostgreSQL so that you can optimize the speed and performance of large databases.

By the end of this book, you will be able to use your database to its utmost capacity by implementing advanced administrative tasks with ease.

What you will learn

• Get to grips with advanced PostgreSQL 12 features and SQL functions
• Use indexing features in PostgreSQL to fine-tune the performance of queries
• Work with stored procedures and manage backup and recovery
• Master replication and failover techniques to reduce data loss
• Replicate PostgreSQL database systems to create proper backups and to scale your database
• Manage and improve the security of your server to protect your data
• Troubleshoot your PostgreSQL instance for solutions to common and not-so-common problems

Who This Book Is For

This book is ideal for PostgreSQL developers and administrators, and database professionals wanting to implement advanced functionalities and master complex administrative tasks with PostgreSQL 12. Prior exposure to PostgreSQL as well as familiarity with the basics of database administration is expected.

About this title

About the Author

Hans-Jurgen Schonig has 18 years' experience with PostgreSQL. He is the CEO of a PostgreSQL consulting and support company called Cybertec Schonig and Schonig GmbH. It has successfully served countless customers around the globe. Before founding Cybertec Schonig and Schonig GmbH in 2000, he worked as a database developer at a private research company that focused on the Austrian labor market, where he primarily worked on data mining and forecast models. He has also written several books about PostgreSQL.

Edition details

• Publisher: Packt Publishing - ebooks Account
• Publication date: 2019
• ISBN 10: 1838988823
• ISBN 13: 9781838988821
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 470