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PostgreSQL 9.0 High Performance
PostgreSQL 9.0 High Performance

PostgreSQL 9.0 High Performance: If you’re an intermediate to advanced database administrator, this book is the shortcut to optimizing and troubleshooting your PostgreSQL database. With a balanced mix of theory and practice, it will quickly hone your expertise.

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  • Learn the right techniques to obtain optimal PostgreSQL database performance, from initial design to routine maintenance
  • Discover the techniques used to scale successful database installations
  • Avoid the common pitfalls that can slow your system down
  • Filled with advice about what you should be doing; how to build experimental databases to explore performance topics, and then move what you've learned into a production database environment
  • Covers versions 8.1 through 9.0

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PostgreSQL database servers have a common set of problems they encounter as their usage gets heavier and requirements more demanding. You could spend years discovering solutions to them all, step by step as you encounter them. Or you can just look in here.All successful database applications are destined to eventually run into issues scaling up their performance. Peek into the future of your PostgreSQL database's problems today. Know the warning signs to look for, and how to avoid the most common issues before they even happen.Surprisingly, most PostgreSQL database applications evolve in the same way: Choose the right hardware. Tune the operating system and server memory use. Optimize queries against the database, with the right indexes. Monitor every layer, from hardware to queries, using some tools that are inside PostgreSQL and others that are external. Using monitoring insight, continuously rework the design and configuration. On reaching the limits of a single server, break things up; connection pooling, caching, partitioning, and replication can all help handle increasing database workloads. The path to a high performance database system isn't always easy. But it doesn't have to be mysterious with the right guide.

Who is this book for?

This book is aimed at intermediate to advanced database administrators using or planning to use PostgreSQL. Portions will also interest systems administrators looking to build or monitor a PostgreSQL installation, as well as developers interested in advanced database internals that impact application design.

What you will learn

  • Learn best practices culled from years of work scaling PostgreSQL installations to handle demanding applications
  • Uncover what makes hardware good or bad for high-performance database applications
  • Investigate making informed speed and reliability trade-offs
  • Tweak your operating system for best database performance
  • Benchmark your whole system from hardware to application
  • Learn how the server parameters that impact performance work using real examples
  • Understand how the query optimizer makes its decisions, and what to do when it makes the wrong ones
  • Monitor what happens on your server, both in and outside of the database
  • Find the best add-on tools that extend the core PostgreSQL database
  • Discover how to architect replicated systems using the latest features added to PostgreSQL 9.0

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Length: 468 pages
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Christian Schmitt Jan 19, 2014
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Momentan gibt es kaum bessere Bücher um das beste aus einer Datenbank herauszuholen.PostgreSQL 9.0 High Performance hat mir sehr geholfen mehr über PostgreSQL zu erfahren und auch meine Applikationslogiken zu optimieren.
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Mladen Gogala Dec 19, 2010
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This is an excellent book which summarizes all the ways of improving performance of the PostgreSQL database. I have more than 20 years of database experience, mostly Oracle, and almost as much Unix and Linux experience. Greg Smith showed a real out of the box thinking and explained the influence of things like the choice of file system to the database performance. An excellent book, a must have for a DBA and anybody interested in PostgreSQL.
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JacquesH Apr 12, 2014
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This is a nice introduction to the topic. A practical guide, with clear explanations. I have both the print and Kindle versions.
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Matthias Stone May 11, 2015
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I found this book very useful for furthering my understanding of Postgres beyond what I needed to improve my application's performance. I was impressed by the clarity in the author's explanations of technical detail. He references his years of experience to emphasize what is important to consider in different database workloads, and does an excellent job expressing the value and impact different decisions have (Why you may increase or decrease this configuration value, impacts of an index, etc.). I am certain I will be referencing this book again with every project I start in the near future.If desired, you can read just the sections you think you need to know (maintenance, indexes, high performance queries), but it isn't a long or difficult read. If you work with Postgres, and don't currently know what tuple refers to in that context, I highly encourage you to read the entire book. Full disclosure: I strongly advocate having an understanding of the layers of abstraction beneath your project, even if you do not interface with them directly.
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