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PostgreSQL 14 Administration Cookbook

PostgreSQL 14 Administration Cookbook

By : Simon Riggs, GIANNI CIOLLI
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PostgreSQL 14 Administration Cookbook

PostgreSQL 14 Administration Cookbook

4.3 (15)
By: Simon Riggs, GIANNI CIOLLI

Overview of this book

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 14 allows you to scale up your PostgreSQL infrastructure. With this book, you'll take a step-by-step, recipe-based approach to effective PostgreSQL administration. This book will get you up and running with all the latest features of PostgreSQL 14 while helping you explore the entire database ecosystem. You’ll learn how to tackle a variety of problems and pain points you may face as a database administrator such as creating tables, managing views, improving performance, and securing your database. As you make progress, the book will draw attention to important topics such as monitoring roles, validating backups, regular maintenance, and recovery of your PostgreSQL 14 database. This will help you understand roles, ensuring high availability, concurrency, and replication. Along with updated recipes, this book touches upon important areas like using generated columns, TOAST compression, PostgreSQL on the cloud, and much more. By the end of this PostgreSQL book, you’ll have gained the knowledge you need to manage your PostgreSQL 14 database efficiently, both in the cloud and on-premise.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)
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How to get PostgreSQL

PostgreSQL is 100% open source software and is freely available to use, alter, or redistribute in any way you choose. Its license is an approved open source license, very similar to the Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD) license, though only just different enough that it is now known as The PostgreSQL License (TPL). You can see the license here: https://opensource.org/licenses/PostgreSQL.

How to do it...

PostgreSQL is already being used by many different application packages, so you may find it already installed on your servers. Many Linux distributions include PostgreSQL as part of the basic installation or include it with the installation disk.

One thing to be wary of is that the included version of PostgreSQL may not be the latest release. It will typically be the latest major release that was available when that operating system release was published. There is usually no good reason to stick...

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