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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.
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Hot Standby and read scalability

Hot Standby is the name for the PostgreSQL feature that allows us to connect to a standby node and execute read-only queries. Most importantly, Hot Standby allows us to run queries while the standby is being continuously updated through either file-based or streaming replication.

Hot Standby allows you to offload large or long-running queries or parts of your read-only workload to standby nodes. Should you need to switch over or fail over to a standby node, your queries will keep executing during the promotion process to avoid any interruption of service.

You can add additional Hot Standby nodes to scale the read-only workload. There is no hard limit on the number of standby nodes, as long as you ensure that enough server resources are available and parameters are set correctly—10, 20, or more nodes are easily possible.

There are two main capabilities provided by a Hot Standby node. The first is that the standby node...

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