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PostgreSQL 16 Administration Cookbook

You're reading from   PostgreSQL 16 Administration Cookbook Solve real-world Database Administration challenges with 180+ practical recipes and best practices

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781835460580
Length 636 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Boriss Mejías Boriss Mejías
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Jimmy Angelakos Jimmy Angelakos
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Simon Riggs Simon Riggs
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Gianni Ciolli Gianni Ciolli
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Vibhor Kumar Vibhor Kumar
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Table of Contents (15) Chapters Close

Preface 1. First Steps 2. Exploring the Database FREE CHAPTER 3. Server 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
14. Index

Finding the configuration settings for your session

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 and is described in detail in the Setting the configuration parameters for the database server recipe, in this chapter. 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 recipe, Setting configuration parameters in your programs, that each parameter has a scope that determines when it can be set. Some parameters can be set through postgresql.conf...

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