The topics mentioned in the introduction to this section are first related to the installation and configuration of the PostgreSQL server. We already provided enough information about installing the server software on different operating systems and starting to work with PostgreSQL.
But if you want to go further and learn more about the PostgreSQL server administration tasks, you might need to look deeper into the following topics:
- Server administration in general: PostgreSQL works on top of an operating system and relies a lot on the file system caching functionality that accelerates I/O operations.
- Virtualization and OS-level virtualization (containers): Nowadays, it's normal to run server software in the cloud, on ...
