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Learning PostgreSQL

You're reading from  Learning PostgreSQL

Product type Book
Published in Nov 2015
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781783989188
Pages 464 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
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Table of Contents (21) Chapters close

Learning PostgreSQL
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. Relational Databases 2. PostgreSQL in Action 3. PostgreSQL Basic Building Blocks 4. PostgreSQL Advanced Building Blocks 5. SQL Language 6. Advanced Query Writing 7. Server-Side Programming with PL/pgSQL 8. PostgreSQL Security 9. The PostgreSQL System Catalog and System Administration Functions 10. Optimizing Database Performance 11. Beyond Conventional Data types 12. Testing 13. PostgreSQL JDBC 14. PostgreSQL and Hibernate Index

PostgreSQL capabilities


PostgreSQL provides enterprise-level services which guarantee the continuation of the business.

Replication

Replication allows data from one database server to be replicated to another server. Replication is used mainly to achieve the following:

  • High availability: A second server can take over if the primary server fails.

  • Load balancing: Several servers can serve the same requests.

  • Faster execution: A query is executed on several machines at once to gain performance.

PostgreSQL supports replication out of the box via streaming replication. Streaming replication is a master-slave replication that uses file-based log shipping. Streaming replication is a binary replication technique, because SQL statements are not analyzed. It is based on taking a snapshot of the master node, and then shipping the changes—the WAL files—from the master node to the slave node and replaying them on the slave. The master can be used for read/write operations, and the slave can be used to serve...

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