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PostgreSQL 10 High Performance

You're reading from   PostgreSQL 10 High Performance Expert techniques for query optimization, high availability, and efficient database maintenance

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788474481
Length 508 pages
Edition 3rd Edition
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Preface 1. PostgreSQL Versions FREE CHAPTER 2. Database Hardware 3. Database Hardware Benchmarking 4. Disk Setup 5. Memory for Database Caching 6. Server Configuration Tuning 7. Routine Maintenance 8. Database Benchmarking 9. Database Indexing 10. Query Optimization 11. Database Activity and Statistics 12. Monitoring and Trending 13. Pooling and Caching 14. Scaling with Replication 15. Partitioning Data 16. Avoiding Common Problems 17. Other Books You May Enjoy

PostgreSQL contrib

One part of the PostgreSQL core that you may not necessarily have installed is what's called the contrib modules (it is named after the directory they are stored in). These are optional utilities shipped with the standard package, but that aren't necessarily installed by default on your system. The contrib code is maintained and distributed as part of the PostgreSQL core, but not required for the server to operate.

From a code quality perspective, the contrib modules aren't held to quite as high a standard, primarily by how they're tested. The main server includes heavy regression tests for every feature, run across a large build farm of systems that look for errors and look for greater performance and greater stability. The optional contrib modules don't get that same level of testing coverage. However, the code itself is maintained by the same development team, and some of the modules are extremely popular and well tested by users.

A list of all the contrib modules available can be found at at http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/contrib.html.

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Published in: Apr 2018
Publisher: Packt
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