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PostgreSQL 11 Administration Cookbook

You're reading from   PostgreSQL 11 Administration Cookbook Over 175 recipes for database administrators to manage enterprise databases

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789537581
Length 600 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Gianni Ciolli Gianni Ciolli
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Sudheer Kumar Meesala Sudheer Kumar Meesala
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Table of Contents (14) Chapters Close

Preface 1. First Steps FREE CHAPTER 2. Exploring the Database 3. Configuration 4. Server Control 5. Tables and Data 6. Security 7. Database Administration 8. Monitoring and Diagnosis 9. Regular Maintenance 10. Performance and Concurrency 11. Backup and Recovery 12. Replication and Upgrades 13. Other Books You May Enjoy

Introduction

First, set up access rules into the database server. PostgreSQL allows you to control access based upon the host that is trying to connect, using the pg_hba.conf file. You can specify SSL connections if needed or skip that if the network is secure. You can specify the use of SCRAM authentication using 256 bit keys, as well as many other mechanisms.

Next, set up the role and privileges for accessing your data. Databases are mostly used to store data, with several restrictions on how it can be used. Some records or tables can only be seen by certain users, and even those tables that are visible to everyone can have restrictions in terms of who can insert new data or change the existing data. All of this is managed by a privilege system, where users are granted different privileges for different tables or other database objects, such as schemas or functions.

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