PostgreSQL Administration

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Duration: 5 Days

Method: Instructor led with hands-on.

Price: $3200.00

Course Code: PS3000

Audience

PostgreSQL database administrators

Description

Students taking this PostgreSQL Administration training class will learn to effectively administer PostgreSQL.

Objectives

Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:

Compile source code.
Perform backup and disaster recovery.
Understand inheritance, partitioning, and Tablespaces.
Manage free space.
Manage security in PostgreSQL.
Create high availabilty and high performance solutions.

Prerequisites

Familiarity with relational database concepts.

Topics

I. PostgreSQL Introduction & Architecture
- Introduction & History
- PostgreSQL Major Features
- PostgreSQL Architecture Overview
II. PostgreSQL Data Types
III. PostgreSQL Installation
- Platforms
- Binary Installation
- Source Installation
- Binary vs. Source – Pros & cons
- Initializing a PostgreSQL Cluster
- Starting & Stopping a PostgreSQL Cluster
- Automatic Startup / Shutdown
- Common Issues & Troubleshooting
IV. PostgreSQL Configuration
- Access Control
- The postgresql.conf file
- Common Issues & Troubleshooting
V. Introduction to psql
- Command line parameters
- Meta Commands
- SET Commands
- psql Security
VI. Functions & Operators
VII. Managing PostgreSQL Databases
- Creating PostgreSQL Databases
- Creating Schemas
- Creating Tables
- Altering Tables
- SELECT & Joins
- Indexes & Foreign Keys
VIII. PostgreSQL Roles and Security
- Views
- Rules
- Users, Groups & Roles
- Sequences
- Object Security
IX. Moving Data with PostgreSQL
- Basic DML
- COPY
- Other Tools
X. Tablespaces, Inheritance and Data Partitioning
- Tablespaces
- Inheritance
- PostgreSQL Data Partitioning
XI. VACUUM
- Routine Vacuuming
- Benefits of Vacuuming
- Recovering Disk Space
- Updating Planner Statistics
- Transaction ID Wraparound Failure
XII. Transactions & Concurrency Control
- Transactions
- Concurrency
XIII. Routine DBA Tasks and Best Practices
- Log Management
- Query Analysis
- Routine Vacuuming
- Recovering Disk Space
- Managing Planner Statistics
- REINDEX
XIV. Monitoring and Statistics
- Database Logs
- OS Process Monitoring
- The PostgreSQL Statistics Collector
- Statistics Views
- Statistics Functions
XV. PostgreSQL Tools Overview
- PG Badger
- PG Bouncer
- PG Pool
- PGCLUU
- PG Admin
- PG Modeler
- MySQL Workbench
- pgbench
- Consistent State PTS
XVI. PostgreSQL Performance Tuning
- OS Tuning
- HW Configuration
- Transaction Logs
- Tablespaces & Partitioning
- Checkpoint Tuning
- Query Tuning
XVII. PostgreSQL Backup and Recovery
- pg_dump
- pg_dumpall
- Recovery Options
- Restore via a List File
- Point In Time Recovery (PITR) Based Backup
- PITR Based Recovery
XVIII. PostgreSQL Upgrade Methods
- Minor Version Upgrades
- pg_upgrade
- RPM Based Upgrade
- Source Based Upgrade
- SLONY Based Upgrade
XIX. PostgreSQL Streaming Replication
- Overview
- Configuration
- Base Backup
- Recovery.conf
- Initializing Streaming Replication
- Standby Conflicts
- Monitoring
- Standby Promotion
- Cascading Replication
- WAL Shipping
- Replication Slots
- Synchronous Replication
XX. SLONY
- Overview
- Configuration & Setup
- Monitoring
- Executing DDL
- Adding Tables to Replication
- Switchover
- Failover
XXI. PostgreSQL High Availability
- Overview
- Replication Type Selection
- Connection Poolers
- Heartbeat Monitoring
- Failing Over
- Failing Back
XXII. PostgreSQL and AWS
- PostgreSQL RDS Overview
- PostgreSQL Redshift Overview
XXIII. The PostgreSQL Contribs