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Mastering PostgreSQL 10

You're reading from   Mastering PostgreSQL 10 Expert techniques on PostgreSQL 10 development and administration

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788472296
Length 428 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Hans-Jürgen Schönig Hans-Jürgen Schönig
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Table of Contents (15) Chapters Close

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

Summary

In this chapter, you learned 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 which features are available in PostgreSQL.

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

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Mastering PostgreSQL 10
Published in: Jan 2018
Publisher: Packt
ISBN-13: 9781788472296
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