PostgreSQL High Performance Cookbook

Get to know effective ways to improve PostgreSQL's performance and master query optimization, and database monitoring.

• Perform essential database tasks such as benchmarking the database and optimizing the server's memory usage
• Learn ways to improve query performance and optimize the PostgreSQL server
• Explore a wide range of high availability and replication mechanisms to build robust, highly available, scalable, and fault-tolerant PostgreSQL databases

If you are a developer or administrator with limited PostgreSQL knowledge and want to develop your skills with this great open source database, then this book is ideal for you. Learning how to enhance the database performance is always an exciting topic to everyone, and this book will show you enough ways to enhance the database performance.

• Build replication strategies for homogeneous and heterogeneous databases
• Test and build a powerful machine with multiple bench marking techniques
• Get to know a few SQL injection techniques
• Find out how to manage the replication using multiple tools
• Benchmark the database server using multiple strategies
• Work with the query processing algorithms and their internal behaviors
• Build a proper plan to upgrade or migrate to PostgreSQL from other databases
• See the essential database load balancing techniques and the various partitioning approaches PostgreSQL provides
• Learn memory optimization techniques and database server configurations