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PostgreSQL 10 Administration Cookbook - Fourth Edition

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Product type Book

Published in May 2018

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781788474924

Pages 576 pages

Edition 4th Edition

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Database Administration

Table of Contents (14) Chapters

Preface

1. First Steps

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

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Finding the current configuration settings

At some point, it will occur to you to ask, What are the current configuration settings?

Most settings can be changed in more than one way, and some ways do not affect all users or all sessions, so it is quite possible to get confused.

How to do it...

Your first thought is probably to look in postgresql.conf, which is the configuration file, described in detail in the Updating the parameter file recipe. That works, but only as long as there is only one parameter file. If there are two, then maybe you're reading the wrong file! How would you know? So, the cautious and accurate way is to not trust a text file, but to trust the server itself.

Moreover, you learned in the previous...

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