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    PostgreSQL 9 Administration Cookbook LITE: Configuration, Monitoring and Maintenance
    PostgreSQL 9 Administration Cookbook LITE: Configuration, Monitoring and Maintenance
    PostgreSQL 9 Administration Cookbook LITE: Configuration, Monitoring and Maintenance
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    PostgreSQL 9 Administration Cookbook LITE: Configuration, Monitoring and Maintenance

    By Simon Riggs

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    Written in the cookbook style, this book offers learning and techniques through recipes. It contains step-by-step instructions for administrators and developers to manage databases in PostgreSQL. The book is designed in such a way that you can read it chapter by chapter or refer to recipes in no particular order. This book is for Sysadmins, Database Administrators, Architects, Developers, and anyone with an interest in planning for or running live production databases. The book assumes that you are familiar with the basic operation of PostgreSQL.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPackt Publishing
    Release dateMay 19, 2011
    ISBN9781849516433
    PostgreSQL 9 Administration Cookbook LITE: Configuration, Monitoring and Maintenance

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      PostgreSQL 9 Administration Cookbook LITE - Simon Riggs

      Table of Contents

      PostgreSQL 9 Administration Cookbook: LITE

      Credits

      About the Authors

      About the Reviewers

      Preface

      What this book covers

      What you need for this book

      Who this book is for

      Conventions

      Reader feedback

      Customer support

      Downloading the example code for this book

      Errata

      Piracy

      Questions

      1. Configuration

      Introduction

      Reading the Fine Manual (RTFM)

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      There's more...

      Planning a new database

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      There's more...

      Changing parameters in your programs

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      There's more...

      What are the current configuration settings?

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      Which parameters are at non-default settings?

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      There's more...

      Who set that?

      Updating the parameter file

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      There's more...

      Setting parameters for particular groups of users

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      Basic server configuration checklist

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      Adding an external module to PostgreSQL

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      Running server in power saving mode

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      2. Monitoring and Diagnosis

      Introduction

      Monitoring is important

      Providing PostgreSQL information to monitoring tools

      Where to find more information about generic monitoring tools

      Realtime view using pgAdmin

      Is the user connected?

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      There's more...

      What if I want to know is that computer connected?

      What are they running?

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      There's more...

      How to catch queries which runs only for a few milliseconds

      How to watch longest queries

      Watching queries from ps

      See also

      Are they active or blocked?

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      There's more...

      No need for = true

      This shows only queries waiting on locks

      Who is blocking them?

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      Killing a specific session

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      There's more...

      Try to cancel the query first

      If the backend won't terminate

      Use statement timeout to clean up queries which take too long

      Killing Idle in transaction queries

      You can also kill the backend from command line

      Resolving an in-doubt prepared transaction

      Is anybody using a specific table?

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      There's more...

      The quick and dirty way

      Collecting daily usage statistics

      When did anybody last use it?

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      Looking at file dates

      How it works...

      There's more...

      There may be last-use information in future version of PostgreSQL

      How much disk space is used by temporary data?

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      When temp_tablespaces has one or more tablespaces

      When temp_tablespaces is empty

      How it works...

      There's more...

      Finding out if temporary file is in use any more

      Logging temporary file usage

      Why are my queries slowing down?

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      There's more...

      Do the queries return significantly more data than earlier?

      Do the queries also run slowly when run alone?

      Is the second run of same query also slow?

      See also

      Investigating and reporting a bug

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      See also

      The official PostgreSQL bug/problem reporting guides

      Producing a daily summary of logfile errors

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      There's more...

      Writing your own log processor

      See also

      3. Regular Maintenance

      Introduction

      Controlling automatic database maintenance

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      There's more...

      See also

      Avoiding auto freezing and page corruptions

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      Avoiding transaction wraparound

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      There's more...

      See also

      Removing old prepared transactions

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      There's more...

      Actions for heavy users of temporary tables

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      Identifying and fixing bloated tables and indexes

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      There's more...

      Maintaining indexes

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      There's more...

      See also

      Locating the unused indexes

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      See also

      Carefully removing unwanted indexes

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      Planning maintenance

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      Index

      PostgreSQL 9 Administration Cookbook: LITE

      PostgreSQL 9 Administration Cookbook: LITE

      Copyright © 2011 Packt Publishing

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the publisher, except in the case of brief quotations embedded in critical articles or reviews.

      Every effort has been made in the preparation of this book to ensure the accuracy of the information presented. However, the information contained in this book is sold without warranty, either express or implied. Neither the authors, nor Packt Publishing, and its dealers and distributors will be held liable for any damages caused or alleged to be caused directly or indirectly by this book.

      Packt Publishing has endeavored to provide trademark information about all of the companies and products mentioned in this book by the appropriate use of capitals. However, Packt Publishing cannot guarantee the accuracy of this information.

      First published: April 2011

      Production Reference: 1130411

      Published by Packt Publishing Ltd. 32 Lincoln Road Olton Birmingham, B27 6PA, UK.

      ISBN 978-1-849516-42-6

      www.packtpub.com

      Cover Image by John M. Quick (<john.m.quick@gmail.com>)

      Credits

      Authors

      Simon Riggs

      Hannu Krosing

      Reviewers

      Gabriele Bartolini

      Dimitri Fontaine

      Acquisition Editor

      Sarah Cullington

      Technical Editor

      Prashant Macha

      Indexer

      Hemangini Bari

      Production Coordinator

      Adline Swetha Jesuthas

      Cover Work

      Kruthika Bangera

      About the Authors

      Simon Riggs is a major developer and one of the few committers on the PostgreSQL database project, as well as CTO of 2ndQuadrant, providing 24x7 support and services to PostgreSQL users worldwide.

      Simon works actively as a database architect and support troubleshooter, skills which drive and shape his contributions to the development of operational features for PostgreSQL. Feature credits include Point in Time Recovery, Warm Standby replication, Hot Standby, Asynchronous Commit, Partitioning and many other performance and tuning features. His designs and solutions can be found throughout the PostgreSQL code and documentation.

      Simon has also previously worked with Oracle, Teradata, and DB2 and holds multiple certifications. His previous experience covers management and senior technical

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