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Learn PostgreSQL

You're reading from   Learn PostgreSQL Use, manage, and build secure and scalable databases with PostgreSQL 16

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781837635641
Length 744 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Luca Ferrari Luca Ferrari
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Enrico Pirozzi Enrico Pirozzi
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Table of Contents (22) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Introduction to PostgreSQL 2. Getting to Know Your Cluster FREE CHAPTER 3. Managing Users and Connections 4. Basic Statements 5. Advanced Statements 6. Window Functions 7. Server-Side Programming 8. Triggers and Rules 9. Partitioning 10. Users, Roles, and Database Security 11. Transactions, MVCC, WALs, and Checkpoints 12. Extending the Database – the Extension Ecosystem 13. Query Tuning, Indexes, and Performance Optimization 14. Logging and Auditing 15. Backup and Restore 16. Configuration and Monitoring 17. Physical Replication 18. Logical Replication 19. Useful Tools and Extensions 20. Other Books You May Enjoy
21. Index

Auto-explain

Auto-explain is an extension that helps the DBA get an idea of slow queries and their execution plan. Essentially, auto-explain triggers when a running query is slower than a specified threshold, and then dumps the execution plan of the query in the PostgreSQL logs (refer to Chapter 14, Logging and Auditing, for more detail).

Note: the Docker image for this chapter comes with auto-explain and log machinery pre-configured.

In this way, the DBA can get an insight into slow queries and their execution plans without having to re-execute these queries. Thanks to this, the DBA can inspect the execution plans and decide if and where to apply indexes or perform a deeper analysis.

The auto-explain module is configured via a set of auto_explain parameter options that can be inserted in the PostgreSQL configuration (the postgresql.conf file), but you need to remember that in order to activate the module, you need to restart the cluster.

The auto-explain...

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