With more than a quarter of a century of development and innovation, PostgreSQL has gained a reputation for stability, robustness, and ease of use. The variety of features available within PostgreSQL makes it a powerful tool for your professional relational database infrastructure.

With the database administrator in mind, this compact, easy-to-read, and practically-oriented book will make your daily handling of PostgreSQL more efficient and rewarding. You will learn about optimization, bottleneck detection, backup and recovery, replication, logfile management, indexing, and much more in a systematic and carefully structured manner. This invaluable guide will enable you to develop the fundamental skills required to deploy PostgreSQL in order to efficiently manage your databases.