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Mastering PostgreSQL 11

You're reading from   Mastering PostgreSQL 11 Expert techniques to build scalable, reliable, and fault-tolerant database applications

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2018
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ISBN-13 9781789537819
Length 446 pages
Edition 2nd 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 FREE CHAPTER 2. Understanding Transactions and Locking 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

Log Files and System Statistics

In Chapter 4, Handling Advanced SQL, you learned a lot about advanced SQL and ways of viewing SQL in a different light. However, database work does not only consist of hacking up fancy SQL. Sometimes, it is also about keeping things running in a professional manner. To do that, it is highly important to keep an eye on system statistics, log files, and so on. Monitoring is the key to running databases professionally. Fortunately, PostgreSQL has many features that can help you monitor your databases, and you will learn how to use them in this chapter.

In this chapter, you will learn about the following topics:

  • Gathering runtime statistics
  • Creating log files
  • Gathering important information
  • Making sense of database statistics

By the end of this chapter, you will be able to configure PostgreSQL's logging infrastructure properly and take care of...

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