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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

Using pgAdmin for DBA tasks


In this recipe, we will show you how to use pgAdmin for the administration of your database. PgAdmin is one of the two graphical interfaces that we introduced in the Using graphical administration toolsrecipe in Chapter 1, First Steps; the other one is OmniDB, to which we dedicate this next recipe.

Getting ready

You should have already installed pgAdmin as part of the Using graphical administration toolsrecipe from Chapter 1, First Steps, which includes website pointers. If you haven't done so, please read it now.

 

Remember to install pgAdmin 4, which is the last generation of the software; the previous one, pgAdmin 3, is no longer supported and hasn't been for a few years, and will give various errors on PostgreSQL 10 and above.

How to do it…

The first task of a DBA is to get access to the database, and get a first glance of its contents. In that respect, we have already seen how to create a connection, access the dashboard, and display some database statistics. We...

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