"PostgreSQL Foundations"
"PostgreSQL Foundations" is an authoritative guide for database professionals, architects, and developers seeking a comprehensive and practical understanding of PostgreSQL. This expertly structured book delves deeply into the heart of the PostgreSQL ecosystem, starting with its internal architecture, memory management, storage organization, and the principles that underpin its durability and transactional integrity. Readers are led from first principles to advanced internal mechanisms such as multi-version concurrency control (MVCC), extensibility, and system catalogs, providing both the theoretical context and the pragmatic insights required to fully leverage PostgreSQL's powerful design.
Spanning every aspect of PostgreSQL administration, the book thoroughly covers installation and configuration across diverse platforms, best practices for security and authentication, and strategies for logging, monitoring, routine maintenance, and seamless version upgrades. Advanced chapters focus on sophisticated data modeling, partitioning strategies, and indexing, as well as SQL mastery, procedural programming, and external integration—empowering readers to design robust schemas and write efficient, maintainable queries. Practical guidance on backup, replication, disaster recovery, high availability architectures, as well as scaling vertically and horizontally, equip practitioners to build and sustain resilient, high-performance environments.
The final chapters place PostgreSQL in the wider context of the modern data ecosystem, with in-depth coverage of cloud-native deployments, DevOps integration, microservices, observability, and community-driven extensions. With an eye to the future, the book concludes with emerging trends and a forward-looking roadmap, making it not only an essential reference for today's data challenges but also a guide for tomorrow's opportunities. Whether building your first production system or optimizing a global data platform, "PostgreSQL Foundations" offers the definitive foundation for mastering one of the world's most advanced open source databases.