Hans-Jurgen Schonig - PostgreSQL Administration Essentials

Hans-Jrgen Schnig and his company Cybertec Schnig & Schnig GmbH (www.postgresql-support.de) have been in professional PostgreSQL service, support, and consulting for over 15 years. He has written several books on PostgreSQL and has serviced customers around the globe. In his daily work, he focuses on performance optimization, PostgreSQL support, and training, as well as, on scalable solutions based on PostgreSQL. He likes working on complex PostgreSQL problemsespecially on large-scale systems and analytical problems.

When he is not visiting customers, he is based in Wiener Neustadt, Austria.

I would like to thank my entire team here at Cybertec Schnig & Schnig GmbH (www.postgresql-support.de) for doing such a great job over the years. It is a real pleasure to work with you all here.

Debasis Roy is leading the sports team at Dhaka for Vizrt Bangladesh. He has more than 7 years of professional experience as a software engineer in Java and C++ relevant technologies. He is enthusiastic about application architecture.

He started his journey at Vizrt with a product called the Online Suite, also known as Escenic Content Engine/Studio, and is now continuing with products related to Viz Sports. Vizrt provides real-time 3D graphics, studio automation, sports analysis, and asset management tools for the broadcast industryinteractive and virtual solutions, animations, maps, weather forecasts, video editing, and compositing tools.

He has also reviewed the book RESTful Java Web Services Security , Packt Publishing .

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Sheldon E. Strauch is a 20-year veteran of software consulting at companies such as IBM, Sears, Ernst & Young, and Kraft Foods. He has a Bachelor's degree in Business Administration and leverages his technical skills to improve the business' self-awareness. His interests include data gathering, management, and mining; maps and mapping; business intelligence; and application of data analysis for continuous improvement. He is currently focused on development of an end-to-end data management and mining at Enova International, a financial services company located in Chicago. In his spare time, he enjoys the performing arts, particularly music, and traveling with his wife, Marilyn.

Steve Perkins is the author of the book Hibernate Search by Example , Packt Publishing , and has over 15 years of experience working with enterprise Java. He lives in Atlanta, GA, USA with his wife, Amanda, and their son, Andrew. He currently works as an Architect at BetterCloud, where he writes software for the Google Cloud Platform.

When he is not writing code, he plays fiddle and guitar, and enjoys working with music production software. You can visit his technical blog at http://steveperkins.net/ and follow him on Twitter at @stevedperkins.

Vasilis Ventirozos has been working with databases for more than a decade on mission-critical applications for companies in both the telcos and lottery industries. While he has worked with a number of database technologies, he considers Postgres as his database of choice. He currently works at OmniTI, a full stack IT services company, focused on highly-scalable web infrastructure, providing PostgreSQL-related consulting and management.

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Preface

PostgreSQL Administration Essentials ... that sounds interesting! I think these were the first things I had in my mind when I was confronted with the idea of writing one more book on PostgreSQL. And, voila, here I am writing those first lines of this new book on PostgreSQL. My hope is that this little book will serve you wellproviding help whenever it is needed.

Since I started my career as a PostgreSQL consultant (www.postgresql-support.de), there has always been a demand for a short, compact book on PostgreSQL administration. No big bloated thing but a book dealing exclusively with what people really need in their daily life. A small thing people can have on their tables all the time and which can be used for everyday administration problems. I am glad that I got the chance to take a shot on a book like that.