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Troubleshooting PostgreSQL

Intercept problems and challenges typically faced by PostgreSQL database administrators with the best troubleshooting techniques

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|Jan 2015

Key Features

    Book Description

    If you are a database administrator looking for solutions to common PostgreSQL problems, this is the book for you. The book is suitable for people with intermediate and professional expertise.

    What you will learn

    • Detect bottlenecks caused by missing indexes
    • Optimize your data structures for optimal memory footprint
    • Write better, performanceoptimized stored procedures
    • Monitor PostgreSQL in an efficient way and deal with system corruption and filesystem issues
    • Detect replicationrelated problems and make replication more failsafe
    • Fix missing indexes and problems arising out of transaction locking
    • Find slow queries and optimize your system for speed

    Who this book is for

    If you are a database administrator looking for solutions to common PostgreSQL problems, this is the book for you. The book is suitable for people with intermediate and professional expertise.

    Table of Contents

    1. Installing PostgreSQL
    2. Creating data structures
    3. Handling indexes
    4. Reading data efficiently.
    5. Getting transactions and locking right
    6. Writing proper procedures
    7. Monitoring PostgreSQL
    8. Fixing backups and replication
    9. Handling hardware disaster
    10. A standard approach to troubleshooting
    PDF ISBN: 978-1-78355-532-1
    Publisher: Packt Publishing Limited
    Publication date: 2015
    Language: English
    Pages: 164
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