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Mastering PostgreSQL 12 - Third Edition
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Mastering PostgreSQL 12 - Third Edition

by Hans-Jürgen Schönig
November 2019
Beginner to intermediate
470 pages
11h 59m
English
Packt Publishing
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Making Sense of Backups and Replication

In Chapter 9, Handling Backup and Recovery, we learned a lot about backup and recovery, which is essential for administration. So far, only logical backups have been covered; I am about to change that in this chapter.

This chapter is all about PostgreSQL's transaction log and what we can do with it to improve our setup and to make things more secure.

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

  • Understanding the transaction log
  • Transaction log archiving and recovery
  • Setting up asynchronous replication
  • Upgrading to synchronous replication
  • Making use of replication slots
  • Making use of CREATE PUBLICATION and CREATE SUBSCRIPTION

By the end of this chapter, you will be able to set up transaction ...

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