Mastering PostgreSQL 11: Expert Techniques to Build Scalable, Reliable, and Fault-Tolerant Database Applications

by Hans-Jürgen Schönig

Master the capabilities of PostgreSQL 11 to efficiently manage and maintain your database This second edition of Mastering PostgreSQL 11 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 11 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. This book is for data and database professionals wanting to implement advanced functionalities and master complex administrative tasks with PostgreSQL 11. Prior experience of database administration with PostgreSQL database will aid in understanding the concepts covered in this book.

Genres: Programming, Technical

448 pages, Kindle Edition

Published October 30, 2018

Reviews

[Jari Aarniala · Rating 2 out of 5]

Lots of insights on Postgres and handy tricks for query optimization etc. That said, I found the book poorly edited and slightly inconsistent, but I will definitely go back to it when dealing with Postgres issues.

[Jaan Elken · Rating 3 out of 5]

very poorly edited

[Jacob Shannon · Rating 4 out of 5]

Was actually 13, optimization techniques were a 5

[Joe Michalak · Rating 4 out of 5]

The book offers a great overview of many of the advanced features of PostgreSQL. Even though I am using version 15, almost all of the info is still relevant.