PostgreSQL 13 Cookbook: Over 120 recipes to build high-performance and fault-tolerant PostgreSQL database solutions

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Design, manage, and build enterprise database solutions using a unique recipe-based approach

Solve common and not-so-common challenges faced while working to achieve optimal database performance

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PostgreSQL has become the most advanced open source database on the market. This book follows a step-by-step approach, guiding you effectively in deploying PostgreSQL in production environments. The book starts with an introduction to PostgreSQL and its architecture. You’ll cover common and not-so-common challenges faced while designing and managing the database. Next, the book focuses on backup and recovery strategies to ensure your database is steady and achieves optimal performance. Throughout the book, you’ll address key challenges such as maintaining reliability, data integrity, a fault-tolerant environment, a robust feature set, extensibility, consistency, and authentication. Moving ahead, you’ll learn how to manage a PostgreSQL cluster and explore replication features for high availability. Later chapters will assist you in building a secure PostgreSQL server, along with covering recipes for encrypting data in motion and data at rest. Finally, you’ll not only discover how to tune your database for optimal performance but also understand ways to monitor and manage maintenance activities, before learning how to perform PostgreSQL upgrades during downtime. By the end of this book, you’ll be well-versed with the essential PostgreSQL 13 features to build enterprise relational databases.

What you will learn

Understand logical and physical backups in Postgres

Demonstrate the different types of replication methods possible with PostgreSQL today

Set up a high availability cluster that provides seamless automatic failover for applications

Secure a PostgreSQL encryption through authentication, authorization, and auditing

Analyze the live and historic activity of a PostgreSQL server

Understand how to monitor critical services in Postgres 13

Manage maintenance activities and performance tuning of a PostgreSQL cluster

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Andrey Apr 18, 2021

Covers all the area. Very good book! Highly recommended!That’s exactly what you need to run a secure, fault tolerant and fast database!

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Konstantin Kondakov Jun 07, 2021

I have read dozens of PostgreSQL books - this one by far the best one. The level of technical details and best practices is truly amazing. if you need great "cheat sheet" on PostgreSQL with over 120 recipes how to make the best out of the PG engine

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Cameron S May 24, 2021

If you're a DBA experienced with another RDBMS who is coming up to speed on PostgreSQL, or similarly in a DevOps role for PostgreSQL, this book is filled excellent "recipes" to help you clearly see the path to get the job done.I don't mean to imply this is a beginner's book -- far from that. The first chapter dives into cluster configuration and management. So it does assume at least an awareness of the needs of setting up a modern RDBMS environment.For every task identified, an overview is provided, followed by the specific statements necessary to set up the related configuration. Related variation, features and options are all explained clearly.As another reviewer commented, this is the book you want to have from the start of your ops career with Postgres.

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Amazon Customer Jun 01, 2021

This book gives you what you need to build a good PostgreSQL server by walking you through each step needed to build a professional setup. That setup covers installation, streaming replications, auto failover, security, backups, restoration, basic tuning, and monitoring.While this books covers the pure PostgreSQL solutions, it also covers many 3rd party solutions such as pgBackRest, pgBouncer, Patroni, pgBadger, Prometheus, Grafana, pg_repack, pgAudit, etc. I use most of these 3rd party software’s myself or I use a competing one that are just as good, for example I use Collectd/Graphite/Grafana instead of node_exporter/Prometheus/Grafana, but that is because I am do not need to monitor Docker/Kubernetes clusters. Both are excellent solutions. The outcome is the same, I have the results of the monitoring displayed in Grafana.This book covers all the same topics that I teach at PostgreSQL User Group meetings and present as a PostgreSQL speaker at conferences and I would recommend it to all new database administrators or people who are upgrading from an older version of PostgreSQL to PostgreSQL 13.While I do agree with KS's review about adding more to the book, that would also make the book too thick to read. This is a good general book and if you need more details on each subject then you need to get a book specific to that subject, such as SQL language, etc. No one book can cover everything, otherwise it would just be too thick to read and too expensive to buy. This book is not for learning PostgreSQL's SQL language or for high performance tuning of PostgreSQL. If you want to learn PostgreSQL's SQL language, then you will want to start with Learn PostgreSQL, for the basics, and then move on to Mastering PostgreSQL 13 for the advanced SQL. To tune PostgreSQL for high performance, I personally use PostgreSQL 10 High Performance by Gregory Smith.The one issue that I found with this book, is that there were a few editing mistakes, but that is to be expected with a book over 300 pages. When the book was updated from PostgreSQL 12 to PostgreSQL 13 a few of the reference's still reference PostgreSQL 12 when they should now reference PostgreSQL 13. This is easy enough for the reader to catch and type correctly.This book, like all others, only covers the basics of monitoring, this is because they are trade secrets of each database administrator and the companies that sell monitoring solutions. If you make yourself familiar with the system tables, views, and functions, then you can write your own queries for monitoring PostgreSQL, just like I have personally done. It is not hard; it just takes patience.Please Note: This physical copy of PostgreSQL 13 Cookbook was donated to me by Packt Publishing, but the views are mine alone based on being a PostgreSQL Database Administrator for the last 20 years aka 2001. I also already had access to this book through my personally paid for Packt Publishing subscription which included this book electronically and I have also previously purchased many PostgreSQL books from Packt Publishing.

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filippos Apr 08, 2021

According to the books description it provides recipes to build high-performance and fault-tolerant solutions. I could not agree more that this is exactly what it does. It's a rather compact book of 300 pages but manages to accumulate 120 recipes that are useful for the day to day work of a postgresql engineer. It could be a scheduled task like upgrading a cluster or setting up monitoring but also a sudden issue that requires immediate attention like identifying slow queries, getting query plans and finding the culprit. In all cases, this book provides solutions. Not worrying too much about the theoretical struggle but focusing on the solutions. However, i particularly enjoyed the MVCC part, which even though theoretical, was short and efficient, exactly as is should be. I also liked the structure of the chapters, i.e chapter 3 refers to taking a backup, chapter 4 uses parts of chapter 3 when creating a slave and chapter 5 uses the slave from chapter 4 to create a highly available system. Prometheus in monitoring and pg_repack, pg_prewarm and pg_stat_statements in the extensions were also parts that are not very often found in such books but can help immensely an engineer in his work. If I could add a recommendation I would suggest that in some cases I would prefer to have a little more information on the problem the is solved rather than just having the solution. For example when running pg_repack to rebuild tables, maybe there could be some more info on how someone identified the specific table needs to be rebuilt and what process led to this conclusion. Overall it's a great book, highly recommended to all postgresql professionals who want to have a point of reference they can use daily.

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