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The intent of this guide is to give you an idea about the DBA landscape and to help guide your learning if you are confused. The roadmap is highly opinionated — neither, knowing everything listed in the roadmap, nor the order of items given in the roadmap is required to be followed in order to be a DBA.
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## Learn basic RDBMS terms and concepts
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Get basic understanding of Postgres key terms and basic RDBMS concepts.
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- **Object model**: data types, columns, rows, tables, schemas, databases, queries.
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- **Relational model**: domains, attributes, tuples, relations, constraints, NULL.
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- **Databases high-level concepts**: ACID, MVCC, transactions, write-ahead log, query processing.
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- **Links**:
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- [Postgres Glossary](https://www.postgresql.org/docs/13/glossary.html)
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- SQL and Relational Theory - Christopher J. Date, 2009
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- Database Design and Relational Theory - Christopher J. Date, 2012
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## Learn how to install and run PostgreSQL
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Get practical skills of how to set up and run Postgres to get a working environment for further learning.
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- Using package managers (APT, YUM, etc.)
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- Using `docker`.
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- Managing Postgres service using `systemd` (start, stop, restart, reload).
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- Managing Postgres service using `pg_ctl`, or OS-specific tools (like `pg_ctlcluster`).
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- Connect to Postgres using `psql`.
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- Deploy database service in cloud environment (AWS, GCE, Azure, Heroku, DigitalOcean, etc...).
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- **Links**:
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- [Official download and install instructions](https://www.postgresql.org/download/)
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- [Official Docker images](https://hub.docker.com/_/postgres)
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## Learn SQL concepts
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Get practical skills of how to create and manipulate database objects and how to execute queries using `psql` client.
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- Understand basic data types.
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- **DML queries**: querying data, modifying data, filtering data, joining tables.
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- **Advanced topics**: transactions, CTE, subqueries, lateral join, grouping, set operations.
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- **DDL queries**: managing tables and schemas (create, alter, drop).
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- Import and export data using `COPY`.
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- **Links**:
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- [DB Fiddle](https://www.db-fiddle.com/)
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- [PostgreSQL Tutorial](https://www.postgresqltutorial.com/)
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- [PostgreSQL SQL Getting Started](https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/tutorial-sql.html)
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- [The SQL Language](https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/sql.html)
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## Learn how to configure Postgres
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Get understanding of the main aspects of how Postgres could be configured. Deep understanding of Postgres internals is not yet necessary here.
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- postgresql.conf:
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- Resources usage
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- Write-ahead Log
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- Checkpoints and Background Writer
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- Cost-based vacuum and auto-vacuum
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- Replication
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- Query planner
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- Reporting, logging and statistics
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- Adding extra extensions
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- ...keep exploring other configuration options
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- [Postgresqlco.nf](http://postgresqlco.nf/)
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## Learn Postgres security concepts
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Get understanding about basic security concepts and common ways of how to deploy secure configurations.
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- Authentication models, roles, pg_hba.conf, SSL settings.
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- **Objects privileges**: grant/revoke, default privileges.
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- **Advanced topics** - row-level security, selinux.
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- **Links**:
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- [Client authentication](https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/client-authentication.html)
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- [Roles and users managements](https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/user-manag.html)
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## Develop infrastructure DBA skills
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Get practical skills of how to deploy, extend, maintain and support Postgres installations and 3rd-party Postgres ecosystem software.
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- **Replication**: streaming replication, logical replication
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- **Backup/recovery tools**:
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- Built-in: `pg_dump`, `pg_dumpall`, `pg_restore`, `pg_basebackup`
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- 3rd-party: `barman`, `pgbackrest`, `pg_probackup`, `WAL-G`
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- Backup validation procedures
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- **Upgrading procedures**
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- Minor and major upgrades using `pg_upgrade`
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- Upgrades using logical replication
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- **Connection pooling**:
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- `Pgbouncer`
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- Alternatives: `Pgpool-II`, `Odyssey`, `Pgagroal`
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- **Infrastructure monitoring**: `Prometheus`, `Zabbix`, other favourite monitoring solution
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- **High availability and cluster management tools**:
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- `Patroni`
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- **Alternatives**: `Repmgr`, `Stolon`, `pg_auto_failover`, `PAF`
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- **Applications Load Balancing and Service Discovery**: `Haproxy`, `Keepalived`, `Consul`, `Etcd`
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- **Deploy Postgres on `Kubernetes`**: Simple `StatefulSet` setup, `HELM`, operators
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- Resource usage and provisioning, capacity planning
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## Learn how to automate routines
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Get practical skills, learn automation tools and automate existing routine tasks.
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- Automation using shell scripts or any other favourite language (`Bash`, `Python`, `Perl`, etc)
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- Configuration management: `Ansible`, `Salt`, `Chef`, `Puppet`
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## Develop application DBA skills
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Learn theory and get practical skills of how applications should work with Postgres
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- **Migrations**:
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- practical patterns and antipatterns
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- tools: `liquibase`, `sqitch`, language-specific tools
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- Data import/export, bulk loading and processing
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- **Queues**:
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- practical patterns and anti-patterns
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- `Skytools PGQ`
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- Data partitioning and sharding patterns.
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- Database normalization and normal forms.
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- Books:
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- The Art of PostgreSQL - Dimitri Fontaine, 2020
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## Learn Postgres advanced topics
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Here is important to continuously extend and develop existing knowledge about Postgres.
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- **Low level internals**:
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- Processes and memory architecture
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- Vacuum processing
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- Buffer management
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- Lock management
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- [Physical storage and file layout](https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/storage.html)
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- [System catalog](https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/catalogs.html)
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- **Fine-grained tuning**:
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- Per-user, per-database settings
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- [Storage parameters](https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/sql-createtable.html#SQL-CREATETABLE-STORAGE-PARAMETERS)
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- Workload-dependant tuning: OLTP, OLAP, HTAP
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- **Advanced SQL topics**:
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- PL/pgSQL, procedures and functions, triggers
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- Aggregate and window functions
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- Recursive CTE
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- **Links**:
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- [The Internals of PostgreSQL](http://www.interdb.jp/pg/index.html) for database administrators and system developers
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- [PL/pgSQL Guide](https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/plpgsql.html)
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## Learn Postgres troubleshooting techniques
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Get basic understanding about troubleshooting tools and get practical skills of how to detect and resolve problems.
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- **Operating system tools**
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- `top` (`htop`, `atop`)
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- `sysstat`
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- `iotop`
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- **Postgres system views**
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- `pg_stat_activity`
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- `pg_stat_statements`
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- **Postgres tools**
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- `pgcenter` - *personal recommendation*
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- **Query analyzing**:
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- [EXPLAIN](https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/sql-explain.html)
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- [Depesz](https://explain.depesz.com/) online EXPLAIN visualization tool
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- [PEV](https://tatiyants.com/pev/#/plans) online EXPLAIN visualization tool
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- [Tensor](https://explain.tensor.ru/) online EXPLAIN visualization tool, RU language only
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- **Log analyzing**:
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- `pgBadger`
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- Ad-hoc analyzing using `grep`, `awk`, `sed`, etc.
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- **External tracing/profiling tools**: `gdb`, `strace`, `perf-tools`, `ebpf`, core dumps
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- **Troubleshooting methods**: USE, RED, Golden signals
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- **Links**:
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- [Linux Performance](http://www.brendangregg.com/linuxperf.html) by Brendan Gregg
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- [USE Method](http://www.brendangregg.com/usemethod.html)
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## Learn SQL optimization technics
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Get understanding and practical skills of how to optimize SQL queries.
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- **Indexes, and their use cases**: B-tree, Hash, GiST, SP-GiST, GIN, BRIN
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- SQL queries patterns and anti-patterns
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- SQL schema design patterns and anti-patterns
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- **Links**:
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- [Use the Index, Luke](https://use-the-index-luke.com/) - a Guide to Database Performance for Developers
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- **Books**:
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- SQL Antipatterns: Avoiding the Pitfalls of Database Programming - Bill Karwin, 2010
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## Develop architect skills
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Get deeper understanding of Postgres use cases and where Postgres is suitable and where is not.
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- **Postgres forks and extensions**: `Greenplum`, `Timescaledb`, `Citus`, `Postgres-XL`, etc.
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- RDBMS in general, benefits and limitations
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- Differences between Postgres and other RDBMS and NoSQL databases
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## Develop Postgres hacker skills
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Get involved to Postgres community and contribute to Postgres; be a useful member of Postgres, and the open source community; use personal experience to help other people.
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- Daily reading and answering in [mailing lists](https://www.postgresql.org/list/)
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- pgsql-general
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- pgsql-admin
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- pgsql-performance
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- pgsql-hackers
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- pgsql-bugs
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- Reviewing patches
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- Writing patches, attending in [Commitfests](https://commitfest.postgresql.org/)
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#### PostgreSQL DBA Roadmap
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##### Learn basic RDBMS terms and concepts
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Get basic understanding of Postgres key terms and basic RDBMS concepts.
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- Object model: data types, columns, rows, tables, schemas, databases, queries.
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- SQL and Relational Theory - Christopher J. Date, 2009
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- Database Design and Relational Theory - Christopher J. Date, 2012
|
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|
||||
##### Learn how to install and run PostgreSQL
|
||||
Get practical skills of how to set up and run Postgres to get a working environment for further learning.
|
||||
- using package managers (APT, YUM, etc.)
|
||||
- using `Docker`.
|
||||
- managing Postgres service using `systemd` (start, stop, restart, reload).
|
||||
- managing Postgres service using `pg_ctl`, or OS-specific tools (like `pg_ctlcluster`).
|
||||
- connect to Postgres using `psql`.
|
||||
- deploy database service in cloud environment (AWS, GCE, Azure, Heroku, DigitalOcean, etc...).
|
||||
- Links:
|
||||
- [Official download and install instructions](https://www.postgresql.org/download/)
|
||||
- [Official Docker images](https://hub.docker.com/_/postgres)
|
||||
|
||||
##### Learn SQL concepts
|
||||
Get practical skills of how to create and manipulate database objects and how to execute queries using `psql` client.
|
||||
- Understanding basic data types.
|
||||
- DML queries: querying data, modifying data, filtering data, joining tables.
|
||||
- advanced topics: transactions, CTE, subqueries, lateral join, grouping, set operations.
|
||||
- DDL queries: managing tables and schemas (create, alter, drop).
|
||||
- Import and export data using `COPY`.
|
||||
- Links:
|
||||
- [DB Fiddle](https://www.db-fiddle.com/)
|
||||
- [PostgreSQL Tutorial](https://www.postgresqltutorial.com/)
|
||||
- [PostgreSQL SQL Getting Started](https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/tutorial-sql.html)
|
||||
- [The SQL Language](https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/sql.html)
|
||||
|
||||
##### Learn how to configure Postgres
|
||||
Get understanding of the main aspects of how Postgres could be configured. Deep understanding of Postgres internals is not yet necessary here.
|
||||
- postgresql.conf:
|
||||
- resources usage
|
||||
- write-ahead log
|
||||
- checkpoints and background writer
|
||||
- cost-based vacuum and autovacuum
|
||||
- replication
|
||||
- query planner
|
||||
- reporting, logging and statistics
|
||||
- adding extra extensions
|
||||
- ... keep exploring other configuration options
|
||||
Links:
|
||||
- [Postgresqlco.nf](http://postgresqlco.nf/)
|
||||
|
||||
##### Learn Postgres security concepts
|
||||
Get understanding about basic security concepts and common ways of how to deploy secure configurations.
|
||||
- Authentication models, roles, pg_hba.conf, SSL settings.
|
||||
- Objects privileges: grant/revoke, default privileges.
|
||||
- Advanced topics - row-level security, selinux.
|
||||
- Links:
|
||||
- [Client authentication](https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/client-authentication.html)
|
||||
- [Roles and users managements](https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/user-manag.html)
|
||||
|
||||
##### Develop infrastructure DBA skills
|
||||
Get practical skills of how to deploy, extend, maintain and support Postgres installations and 3rd-party Postgres ecosystem software.
|
||||
- Replication: streaming replication, logical replication
|
||||
- Backup/recovery tools:
|
||||
- Built-in: `pg_dump`, `pg_dumpall`, `pg_restore`, `pg_basebackup`
|
||||
- 3rd-party: `barman`, `pgbackrest`, `pg_probackup`, `WAL-G`
|
||||
- Backup validation procedures
|
||||
- Upgrading procedures
|
||||
- minor and major upgrades using `pg_upgrade`
|
||||
- upgrades using logical replication
|
||||
- Connection pooling:
|
||||
- `Pgbouncer`
|
||||
- alternatives: `Pgpool-II`, `Odyssey`, `Pgagroal`
|
||||
- Infrastructure monitoring: `Prometheus`, `Zabbix`, other favourite monitoring solution
|
||||
- High availability and cluster management tools:
|
||||
- `Patroni`
|
||||
- alternatives: `Repmgr`, `Stolon`, `pg_auto_failover`, `PAF`
|
||||
- Applications Load Balancing and Service Discovery: `Haproxy`, `Keepalived`, `Consul`, `Etcd`
|
||||
- Deploy Postgres on `Kubernetes`: simple `StatefulSet` setup, `HELM`, operators
|
||||
- Resource usage and provisioning, capacity planning
|
||||
|
||||
##### Learn how to automate routines
|
||||
Get practical skills, learn automation tools and automate existing routine tasks.
|
||||
- Automation using shell scripts or any other favourite language (`Bash`, `Python`, `Perl`, etc)
|
||||
- Configuration management: `Ansible`, `Salt`, `Chef`, `Puppet`
|
||||
|
||||
##### Develop application DBA skills
|
||||
Learn theory and get practical skills of how applications should work with Postgres
|
||||
- Migrations:
|
||||
- practical patterns and antipatterns
|
||||
- tools: `liquibase`, `sqitch`, language-specific tools
|
||||
- Data import/export, bulk loading and processing
|
||||
- Queues:
|
||||
- practical patterns and anti-patterns
|
||||
- `Skytools PGQ`
|
||||
- Data partitioning and sharding patterns.
|
||||
- Database normalization and normal forms.
|
||||
- Books:
|
||||
- The Art of PostgreSQL - Dimitri Fontaine, 2020
|
||||
|
||||
##### Learn Postgres advanced topics
|
||||
Here is important to continuously extend and develop existing knowledge about Postgres.
|
||||
- Low level internals:
|
||||
- Processes and memory architecture
|
||||
- Vacuum processing
|
||||
- Buffer management
|
||||
- Lock management
|
||||
- [Physical storage and file layout](https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/storage.html)
|
||||
- [System catalog](https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/catalogs.html)
|
||||
- Fine-grained tuning:
|
||||
- Per-user, per-database settings
|
||||
- [Storage parameters](https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/sql-createtable.html#SQL-CREATETABLE-STORAGE-PARAMETERS)
|
||||
- Workload-dependant tuning: OLTP, OLAP, HTAP
|
||||
- Advanced SQL topics:
|
||||
- PL/pgSQL, procedures and functions, triggers
|
||||
- aggregate and window functions
|
||||
- recursive CTE
|
||||
- Links:
|
||||
- [The Internals of PostgreSQL](http://www.interdb.jp/pg/index.html) for database administrators and system developers
|
||||
- [PL/pgSQL Guide](https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/plpgsql.html)
|
||||
|
||||
##### Learn Postgres troubleshooting technics
|
||||
Get basic understanding about troubleshooting tools and get practical skills of how to detect and resolve problems.
|
||||
- Operating system tools
|
||||
- `top` (`htop`, `atop`)
|
||||
- `sysstat`
|
||||
- `iotop`
|
||||
- Postgres system views
|
||||
- `pg_stat_activity`
|
||||
- `pg_stat_statements`
|
||||
- Postgres tools
|
||||
- `pgcenter` - *personal recommendation*
|
||||
- Query analyzing:
|
||||
- [EXPLAIN](https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/sql-explain.html)
|
||||
- [Depesz](https://explain.depesz.com/) online EXPLAIN visualization tool
|
||||
- [PEV](https://tatiyants.com/pev/#/plans) online EXPLAIN visualization tool
|
||||
- [Tensor](https://explain.tensor.ru/) online EXPLAIN visualization tool, RU language only
|
||||
- Log analyzing:
|
||||
- `pgBadger`
|
||||
- Ad-hoc analyzing using `grep`, `awk`, `sed`, etc.
|
||||
- External tracing/profiling tools: `gdb`, `strace`, `perf-tools`, `ebpf`, core dumps
|
||||
- Troubleshooting methods: USE, RED, Golden signals
|
||||
- Links:
|
||||
- [Linux Performance](http://www.brendangregg.com/linuxperf.html) by Brendan Gregg
|
||||
- [USE Method](http://www.brendangregg.com/usemethod.html)
|
||||
|
||||
##### Learn SQL optimization technics
|
||||
Get understanding and practical skills of how to optimize SQL queries.
|
||||
- Indexes, and their use cases: B-tree, Hash, GiST, SP-GiST, GIN, BRIN
|
||||
- SQL queries patterns and anti-patterns
|
||||
- SQL schema design patterns and anti-patterns
|
||||
- Links:
|
||||
- [Use the Index, Luke](https://use-the-index-luke.com/) - a Guide to Database Performance for Developers
|
||||
- Books:
|
||||
- SQL Antipatterns: Avoiding the Pitfalls of Database Programming - Bill Karwin, 2010
|
||||
|
||||
##### Develop architect skills
|
||||
Get deeper understanding of Postgres use cases and where Postgres is suitable and where is not.
|
||||
- Postgres forks and extensions: `Greenplum`, `Timescaledb`, `Citus`, `Postgres-XL`, etc.
|
||||
- RDBMS in general, benefits and limitations
|
||||
- Differences between Postgres and other RDBMS and NoSQL databases
|
||||
|
||||
##### Develop Postgres hacker skills
|
||||
Get involved to Postgres community and contribute to Postgres; be a useful member of Postgres, and the open source community; use personal experience to help other people.
|
||||
- daily reading and answering in [mailing lists](https://www.postgresql.org/list/)
|
||||
- pgsql-general
|
||||
- pgsql-admin
|
||||
- pgsql-performance
|
||||
- pgsql-hackers
|
||||
- pgsql-bugs
|
||||
- reviewing patches
|
||||
- writing patches, attending in [Commitfests](https://commitfest.postgresql.org/)
|
@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
|
||||
## PostgreSQL DBA Roadmap
|
||||
Roadmap to becoming a PostgreSQL Database Administrator
|
@ -1,14 +0,0 @@
|
||||
{
|
||||
"title": "PostgreSQL DBA Roadmap",
|
||||
"description": "Step by step guide to becoming a modern PostgreSQL DBA",
|
||||
"featuredDescription": "Step by step guide to becoming a modern PostgreSQL DBA in 2020",
|
||||
"path": "./landscape.md",
|
||||
"resources": "./resources.md",
|
||||
"author": {
|
||||
"name": "Alexey Lesovsky",
|
||||
"url": "https://github.com/lesovsky"
|
||||
},
|
||||
"featured": false,
|
||||
"detailed": false,
|
||||
"versions": []
|
||||
}
|
@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
|
||||
<url>
|
||||
<loc>https://roadmap.sh/frontend</loc>
|
||||
<changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
|
||||
<lastmod>2020-05-26T18:13:35.798Z</lastmod>
|
||||
<lastmod>2020-07-20T21:01:02.296Z</lastmod>
|
||||
<priority>1.0</priority>
|
||||
</url>
|
||||
<url>
|
||||
@ -18,18 +18,24 @@
|
||||
<lastmod>2020-01-29T07:49:29.706Z</lastmod>
|
||||
<priority>1.0</priority>
|
||||
</url>
|
||||
<url>
|
||||
<loc>https://roadmap.sh/react</loc>
|
||||
<changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
|
||||
<lastmod>2020-07-18T00:11:27.434Z</lastmod>
|
||||
<priority>1.0</priority>
|
||||
</url>
|
||||
<url>
|
||||
<loc>https://roadmap.sh/android</loc>
|
||||
<changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
|
||||
<lastmod>2020-06-11T15:47:02.224Z</lastmod>
|
||||
<priority>1.0</priority>
|
||||
</url>
|
||||
<url>
|
||||
<loc>https://roadmap.sh/postgresql-dba</loc>
|
||||
<changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
|
||||
<lastmod>2020-09-19T14:09:45.689Z</lastmod>
|
||||
<priority>1.0</priority>
|
||||
</url>
|
||||
<url>
|
||||
<loc>https://roadmap.sh/react</loc>
|
||||
<changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
|
||||
<lastmod>2020-07-18T00:11:27.434Z</lastmod>
|
||||
<priority>1.0</priority>
|
||||
</url>
|
||||
<url>
|
||||
<loc>https://roadmap.sh/qa</loc>
|
||||
<changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
|
||||
@ -186,6 +192,12 @@
|
||||
<lastmod>2017-10-28T17:00:00.860Z</lastmod>
|
||||
<priority>1.0</priority>
|
||||
</url>
|
||||
<url>
|
||||
<loc>https://roadmap.sh/guides/proxy-servers</loc>
|
||||
<changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
|
||||
<lastmod>2020-07-24T12:40:18</lastmod>
|
||||
<priority>1.0</priority>
|
||||
</url>
|
||||
<url>
|
||||
<loc>https://roadmap.sh/about</loc>
|
||||
<changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
|
||||
@ -231,7 +243,7 @@
|
||||
<url>
|
||||
<loc>https://roadmap.sh/watch</loc>
|
||||
<changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
|
||||
<lastmod>2020-07-17T20:43:20.585Z</lastmod>
|
||||
<lastmod>2020-09-19T08:07:30.722Z</lastmod>
|
||||
<priority>1.0</priority>
|
||||
</url>
|
||||
</urlset>
|
Reference in New Issue
Block a user