Content preview from Learning PostgreSQL 11 - Third Edition
- What does it mean for a software solution to be scalable?
- What does the CAP theorem say about a distributed storage solution?
- Which features, in the context of the CAP theorem, does PostgreSQL support?
- What is the Write-Ahead Log?
- How is WAL used when performing database recovery and replication?
- What is streaming replication?
- What is a failover process?
- What is a hot standby?
- What is the difference between physical replication and logical replication?
- How can replication help in distributing the load over several database servers?
- What is data sharding?
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