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Mastering PostgreSQL 15 - Fifth Edition

You're reading from  Mastering PostgreSQL 15 - Fifth Edition

Product type Book
Published in Jan 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781803248349
Pages 522 pages
Edition 5th Edition
Languages
Author (1):
Hans-Jürgen Schönig Hans-Jürgen Schönig
Profile icon Hans-Jürgen Schönig

Table of Contents (16) Chapters

Preface 1. Chapter 1: PostgreSQL 15 Overview 2. Chapter 2: Understanding Transactions and Locking 3. Chapter 3: Making Use of Indexes 4. Chapter 4: Handling Advanced SQL 5. Chapter 5: Log Files and System Statistics 6. Chapter 6: Optimizing Queries for Good Performance 7. Chapter 7: Writing Stored Procedures 8. Chapter 8: Managing PostgreSQL Security 9. Chapter 9: Handling Backup and Recovery 10. Chapter 10: Making Sense of Backups and Replication 11. Chapter 11: Deciding on Useful Extensions 12. Chapter 12: Troubleshooting PostgreSQL 13. Chapter 13: Migrating to PostgreSQL 14. Index 15. Other Books You May Enjoy

Approaching an unknown database

If you happen to administer a large-scale system, you might not know what the system is actually doing. Managing hundreds of systems implies that you won’t know what is going on with each of them.

The most important thing when it comes to troubleshooting boils down to a single word: data. If there is not enough data, there is no way to fix things. Therefore, the first step to troubleshooting is to always set up a monitoring tool, such as pgwatch2 (available at https://www.cybertec-postgresql.com/en/products/pgwatch2/), which gives you some insights into your database server. Without proper data collection, troubleshooting is basically impossible. Always keep in mind that without data, you will be clueless.

Once a reporting tool informs you about a situation that is worth checking, this means it has been proven useful for approaching the system in an organized way.

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