Mastering PostgreSQL 10

Author(s): Hans-Jurgen Schonig

Publisher: Packt Publishing, Year: 2018

Master the capabilities of PostgreSQL 10 to efficiently manage and maintain your database

Key Features
Your one-stop guide to mastering advanced concepts in PostgreSQL 10 with ease
Master query optimization, replication, and high availability with PostgreSQL
Extend the functionalities of your PostgreSQL instance to suit your organizational needs with minimal effort

Book Description
PostgreSQL is an open source database used for handling large datasets (big data) and as a JSON document database. This book highlights the newly introduced features in PostgreSQL 10, and shows you how you can build better PostgreSQL applications, and administer your PostgreSQL database more efficiently. We begin by explaining advanced database design concepts in PostgreSQL 10, along with indexing and query optimization. You will also see how to work with event triggers and perform concurrent transactions and table partitioning, along with exploring SQL and server tuning. We will walk you through implementing advanced administrative tasks such as server maintenance and monitoring, replication, recovery, high availability, and much more. You will understand common and not-so-common troubleshooting problems and how you can overcome them. By the end of this book, you will have an expert-level command of advanced database functionalities and will be able to implement advanced administrative tasks with PostgreSQL 10.