This book is your one-stop resource on PostgreSQL system architecture, installation, management, maintenance, and migration. It will help you address the critical needs driving successful database management today: reliability and availability, performance and scalability, security and compliance, cost-effectiveness and flexibility, disaster recovery, and real-time analytics—all in one volume. Each topic in the book is thoroughly explained by industry experts and includes step-by-step instructions for configuring the features, a discussion of common issues and their solutions, and an exploration of real-world scenarios and case studies that illustrate how concepts work in practice. You won't find the book's comprehensive coverage of advanced topics, including migration from Oracle to PostgreSQL, heterogeneous replication, and backup & recovery, in one place—online or anywhere else. What You Will Learn Install PostgreSQL using source code and yum installation Back up and recover Migrate from Oracle database to PostgreSQL using ora2pg utility Replicate from PostgreSQL to Oracle database and vice versa using Oracle GoldenGate Monitor using Grafana, PGAdmin, and command line tools Maintain with VACUUM, REINDEX, etc. Who This Book Is For Intermediate and advanced PostgreSQL users, including PostgreSQL administrators, architects, developers, analysts, disaster recovery system engineers, high availability engineers, and migration engineers

The 'PostgreSQL 12 High Availability Cookbook' is a comprehensive guide to setting up and maintaining highly available PostgreSQL clusters. This book provides practical recipes for designing a resilient database system that can handle outages and recover quickly without downtime. What this Book will help me do Learn how to configure replication tools to protect PostgreSQL data effectively. Understand and implement hardware strategies for ensuring optimal database performance. Master the techniques for reducing contention with connections using pooling strategies. Gain insights into using monitoring tools like Nagios and Grafana for PostgreSQL cluster management. Develop a robust strategy for version upgrades, backups, and failover. Author(s) Shaun Thomas is a seasoned database specialist with extensive experience managing PostgreSQL systems. As a PostgreSQL contributor and advocate, he brings a depth of practical knowledge to database reliability and automation. Shaun's engaging and clear writing style ensures that readers can apply the discussed techniques with confidence. Who is it for? This book is ideal for database administrators, IT professionals, and developers who maintain PostgreSQL systems and want to improve uptime or reliability. Familiarity with basic PostgreSQL concepts is recommended, but no specific knowledge of version 12 features is required. Readers aiming to build advanced high availability solutions will find this book invaluable. It's perfect for those aspiring to ensure their database systems are both resilient and adaptive.