Mastering PostgreSQL 10

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

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.

What You Will Learn

Get to grips with the advanced features of PostgreSQL 10 and handle advanced SQL
Make use of the indexing features in PostgreSQL and fine-tune the performance of your queries
Work with stored procedures and manage backup and recovery
Master replication and failover techniques
Troubleshoot your PostgreSQL instance for solutions to common and not-so-common problems
Learn how to migrate your database from MySQL and Oracle to PostgreSQL without any hassle
Author
Hans-Jürgen Schönig
Hans-Jürgen Schönig has 18 years' experience with PostgreSQL. He is the CEO of a PostgreSQL consulting and support company called Cybertec Schönig & Schönig GmbH. It has successfully served countless customers around the globe.

Before founding Cybertec Schönig & Schönig GmbH in 2000, he worked as a database developer at a private research company that focused on the Austrian labor market, where he primarily worked on data mining and forecast models. He has also written several books about PostgreSQL.