Enterprise PostgreSQL: High Availability, Scaling, Upgrades, and Performance

By Sambaiah Sammeta, Y V Ravi Kumar, Jeyaram Ayyalusamy

PostgreSQL has become a leading platform for mission-critical applications, but successful production deployments require far more than basic database administration. This book provides a practical guide to upgrading, scaling, protecting, integrating, and optimizing PostgreSQL in modern enterprise environments.

You will learn how to perform PostgreSQL minor and major version upgrades, design highly available architectures, implement switchover and failover strategies, configure logical replication, and deploy resilient Patroni clusters. The book also explores distributed PostgreSQL with Citus for horizontal scalability, Change Data Capture (CDC) pipelines using PostgreSQL, Kafka, Debezium, and Docker, and practical performance tuning for production workloads.

Each chapter combines architectural concepts with hands-on implementation, step-by-step configuration guidance, troubleshooting techniques, best practices, and real-world scenarios, helping you move from routine PostgreSQL administration to managing highly available, scalable, and performance-optimized production environments.

What You Will Learn

Perform PostgreSQL minor and major version upgrades with minimal downtimeDesign and implement high-availability PostgreSQL architecturesConfigure switchover, failover, and logical replication solutionsDeploy and manage PostgreSQL clusters using PatroniImplement distributed PostgreSQL architectures with Citus for horizontal scalabilityBuild Change Data Capture (CDC) pipelines using PostgreSQL, Kafka, Debezium, and DockerTroubleshoot and optimize PostgreSQL performance for production workloadsApply best practices for managing and maintaining enterprise PostgreSQL environments

Who This Book is For

Advanced PostgreSQL users, including PostgreSQL administrators, database architects, developers, consultants, migration and high availability engineers, and performance tuning specialists.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0HF6XSXDT
• ISBN13: 9798868833342
• Release Date: February 2027
• Publisher: Apress
• Dimensions: 7.0" x 10.0"