Sign In Start Free Trial
Account

Add to playlist

Create a Playlist

Modal Close icon
You need to login to use this feature.
  • Book Overview & Buying PostgreSQL 14 Administration Cookbook
  • Table Of Contents Toc
  • Feedback & Rating feedback
PostgreSQL 14 Administration Cookbook

PostgreSQL 14 Administration Cookbook

By : Simon Riggs, GIANNI CIOLLI
4.3 (15)
close
close
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)
close
close

Connecting using encryption (SSL/GSSAPI)

Here, we will demonstrate how to enable PostgreSQL to use SSL for the protection of database connections by encrypting all of the data passed over that connection. Using SSL makes it much harder to sniff the database traffic, including usernames, passwords, and other sensitive data. Otherwise, everything that is passed unencrypted between a client and the database can be observed by someone listening to a network somewhere between them. An alternative to using SSL is running the connection over a VPN.

Using SSL makes the data transfer on the encrypted connection a little slower, so you may not want to use it if you are sure that your network is safe. The performance impact can be quite large if you are creating lots of short connections, as setting up an SSL connection is quite central-processing unit (CPU)-heavy. In this case, you may want to run a local connection-pooling solution, such as PgBouncer, to which the client connects without...

Unlock full access

Continue reading for free

A Packt free trial gives you instant online access to our library of over 7000 practical eBooks and videos, constantly updated with the latest in tech
bookmark search playlist font-size

Change the font size

margin-width

Change margin width

day-mode

Change background colour

Close icon Search
Country selected

Close icon Your notes and bookmarks

Delete Bookmark

Modal Close icon
Are you sure you want to delete it?
Cancel
Yes, Delete

Confirmation

Modal Close icon
claim successful

Buy this book with your credits?

Modal Close icon
Are you sure you want to buy this book with one of your credits?
Close
YES, BUY