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Mastering PostgreSQL 12

You're reading from   Mastering PostgreSQL 12 Advanced techniques to build and administer scalable and reliable PostgreSQL database applications

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Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781838988821
Length 470 pages
Edition 3rd Edition
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Hans-Jürgen Schönig Hans-Jürgen Schönig
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Table of Contents (18) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: Basic Overview FREE CHAPTER
2. PostgreSQL 12 Overview 3. Understanding Transactions and Locking 4. Section 2: Advanced Concepts
5. Making Use of Indexes 6. Handling Advanced SQL 7. Log Files and System Statistics 8. Optimizing Queries for Good Performance 9. Writing Stored Procedures 10. Managing PostgreSQL Security 11. Handling Backup and Recovery 12. Making Sense of Backups and Replication 13. Deciding on Useful Extensions 14. Troubleshooting PostgreSQL 15. Migrating to PostgreSQL 16. Assessment 17. Other Books You May Enjoy

Summary

In this chapter, you learned about transactions, locking and its logical implications, and the general architecture the PostgreSQL transaction machinery can have for storage, concurrency, and administration. You saw how rows are locked and some of the features that are available in PostgreSQL.

In Chapter 3, Making Use of Indexes, you will learn about one of the most important topics in database work: indexing. You will also learn about the PostgreSQL query optimizer, as well as various types of indexes and their behavior.

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