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Duration 35 hours
Course Outline
Introduction to the PostgreSQL Database Server
- Architecture (processes, files)
- Administrative tools
- Installation, upgrade, startup, shutdown
- Configuration (files and configuration parameters)
- Tablespaces, databases, schemas
- Basic maintenance operations (vacuum, analyze, reindex)
User Account and Privilege Management
- Authentication methods
- Restricting network access to the server
- Creating and modifying user account definitions
- Creating groups/roles
- System and object privileges
Protecting Databases Against Failure - Backups and Replication
- Database backups (logical: pg_dump, pg_dumpall, pg_restore; physical: pg_basebackup; incremental physical: pg_combinebackup)
- Database recovery after failure
- WAL file archiving
- Complete and incomplete (point-in-time) recovery
- Standard physical replication
- Standard logical replication
- Auxiliary tools (barman, repmgr)
Managing PostgreSQL Database Server Performance
- Query execution plans, introduction to the Query Planner, statistics for the Query Planner
- Index usage, index types (B-tree, hash, BRIN)
- Advanced table structures (partitioned, unlogged, temporary, materialized views)
- Buffer cache usage (Buffer Cache, Work Memory, Maintenance Work Memory)
- Parallel queries: architecture, monitoring, configuration
- Monitoring workload and performance (logging long-running queries, analyzing table and index load)
- PgBench tool
- Other performance optimization techniques
Testimonials (3)
performance knowledge
Adrian Ionut Chelaru - Banca Transilvania Cluj
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Tables indexes and qq reperforming & tuning in order to improve them
Roberto Esposito
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A good first contact with a new database technology