Wisma Bumiputera 18th floor Jl. Jend. Sudirman Kav.

75
Jakarta Selatan 12910 – Indonesia

Phone: +62 21 570 1635, 570 - 1634

Email: info@sgi-asia.co.id

PT. SYSTECH GLOBAL INFORMASI

PostgreSQL for Database Administrators (DBA)

Duration: 3 Days
PostgreSQL is commonly known as Postgres and it is also open-source database. PostgreSQL
is a powerful, open-source object-relational database system. A database administrator's
(DBA) primary job is to ensure that data is available, protected from loss and corruption, and
easily accessible as needed.
The PostgreSQL administration covers some of the most important PostgreSQL
database server administration activities.

Prerequisite:
• Internet access is required to download PostgreSQL Server
• Basic understanding of database concept would help
• Basic understanding of SQL would help

Course Outline:
Introduction & Architecture
• History of PostgreSQL
• Major Features
• Limitations
• Architectural Overview
• PostgreSQL Terminology
• PostgreSQL System Architecture
• Architectural Summary
• Database Clusters
• Physical Database Architecture
• Data File Architecture
• Database File Layout
• Database Page Layout
• Process Architecture
• Connect Request
• Backend Spawning
• Multi-Version Concurrency Control (MVCC)
• Write-Ahead Logging
 Wisma Bumiputera 18th floor Jl. Jend. Sudirman Kav.75
Jakarta Selatan 12910 – Indonesia

Phone: +62 21 570 1635, 570 - 1634

Email: info@sgi-asia.co.id

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Installation
• Creating a database cluster
• Starting and Stopping the Server (Windows)
• Starting and Stopping the Server (Other)
• Lab Exercise - Installation
• Install PostgreSQL from source
• Create a database cluster
• Start the database server
• Connect to the server using psql
• Stop the database server
• Using PSQL Tool

Introduction to Migration Studio

• Overview
• GUI
• edborascan

Performance Tuning
• Explain and Explain Analyze
• Forcing Query Plan Selection
• Helping the Optimizer
• Using Views
• Creating Rules with Views
• Indexing
• Constraints
• Clustering Rows

Routine Database Maintenance Tasks

• Backup & Recovery
• Log Management
• Routine Vacuuming
• Recovering Disk Space
• Vacuum Full
• Updating Planner Statistics
• Preventing Transaction ID Wraparound
• Failures
• Routine Reindexing

Backup & Recovery

• Dump & Restore
• File System Backup - copying DATA folder
• pg_start_backup and pg_stop_backup
• PITR - Point in Time Recovery
• Creating a base backup
 Wisma Bumiputera 18th floor Jl. Jend. Sudirman Kav.75
Jakarta Selatan 12910 – Indonesia

Phone: +62 21 570 1635, 570 - 1634

Email: info@sgi-asia.co.id

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• Archive command
• Recovery file parameters
• Lab to test PITR

High Availability & Replication

• Why Use Replication
• Replication
• Introduction to Slony

Security
• Levels of security: pg_conf, schemas and
• users and table level.
• USERS; GROUPS; ROLES
• Object Ownership
• Access control
• Application Access
• pg_hba.conf
• Schemas and Search Paths
• Lab to create USERS, SCHEMAS, ROLES,
• Alter SEARCH_PATH, GRANT and REVOKE
• privileges

PostgreSQL Partitioning and Tablespaces

• Partition Methods
• Partition Setup
• Table space Management

Monitoring & Statistics

• Database Logs
• OS Process Monitoring
• Statistics Collector
• Statistics Parameters
• Statistics Views and Functions
• Timing