PostgreSQL High Performance Cookbook

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

About This Book
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
Who This Book Is For
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.

What You Will Learn
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