Postgresql 9 Administration Cookbook Lite: Configuration, Monitoring and Maintenance - Softcover

Riggs, Simon; Krosing, Hannu

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1849516421 ISBN 13: 9781849516426

Publisher: Packt Pub Ltd, 2011

Synopsis

Written in the cookbook style, this book offers learning and techniques through recipes. It contains step-by-step instructions for administrators and developers to manage databases in PostgreSQL. The book is designed in such a way that you can read it chapter by chapter or refer to recipes in no particular order. This book is for Sysadmins, Database Administrators, Architects, Developers, and anyone with an interest in planning for or running live production databases. The book assumes that you are familiar with the basic operation of PostgreSQL.

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About the Author

Simon Riggs

Simon Riggs is one of the few Major Developers and Committers on the PostgreSQL database project, and is also CTO of 2ndQuadrant, providing 24x7 support and services to PostgreSQL users worldwide. Simon has worked with enterprise-class database applications for more than 20 years, with prior certifications on Oracle, Teradata and DB2. Simon is responsible for much of the database recovery and replication code in PostgreSQL, and designed or wrote many of the latest performance enhancements. He uses his operational experience to contribute to many aspects of both internal design and usability.

Hannu Krosing

Hannu Krosing is Principal Consultant at 2ndQuadrant and a Technical Advisor at Ambient Sound Investments. As the original database architect at Skype Technologies, Hannu was responsible for designing the Skytools suite of replication and scalability technologies. Hannu has more than 12 years experience working with, and contributing to, the PostgreSQL project.

Edition details

• Publisher: Packt Pub Ltd
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1849516421
• ISBN 13: 9781849516426
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 88