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PostgreSQL 9 High Availability Cookbook

Over 100 recipes to design and implement a highly available server with the advanced features of PostgreSQL.

Publisher:Packt Publishing Limited
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|Oct 2025
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Key Features

    Book Description

    A comprehensive series of dependable recipes to design, build, and implement a PostgreSQL server architecture free of common pitfalls that can operate for years to come. Each chapter is packed with instructions and examples to simplify even highly complex database operations. If you are a PostgreSQL DBA working on Linux systems who want a database that never gives up, this book is for you. If you've ever experienced a database outage, restored from a backup, spent hours trying to repair a malfunctioning cluster, or simply want to guarantee system stability, this book is definitely for you.

    What you will learn

    • Protect your data with PostgreSQL replication and management tools such as Slony, Bucardo, and Londiste
    • Choose the correct hardware for redundancy and scale
    • Prepare for catastrophes and prevent them before they happen
    • Reduce database resource contention with connection pooling
    • Automate monitoring and alerts to visualize cluster activity using Nagios and collectd
    • Construct a robust software stack that can detect and fix outages
    • Design a scalable schema architecture to handle billions of queries

    Who this book is for

    Table of Contents

    1. Hardware Planning
    2. Handling and Avoiding Downtime
    3. Pooling Resources
    4. Troubleshooting
    5. Monitoring
    6. Replication
    7. Replication Management Tools
    8. Advanced Stack
    9. Cluster Control
    10. Data Distribution
    https://github.com/packtpublishing/postgresql-high-availability-cookbook
    PDF ISBN: 978-1-84951-697-6
    Publisher: Packt Publishing Limited
    Copyright owner: © 2014 Packt Publishing Limited
    Publication date: 2025
    Language: English
    Pages: 398
    Related subjects:
    Computer sciences,
    Computer sciences, other
    BISAC subjects:
    COM061000,
    COM021050,
    COM051170
    Thema subjects:
    UTD,
    UN,
    UMT

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