Reindex without locking postgres
Rebuild a bloated index online; note: must run outside a transaction
REINDEX INDEX CONCURRENTLY <name>; -- note: cannot run inside a transaction block
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Create index online
CREATE INDEX CONCURRENTLY idx_<name> ON <table>(col); -- monitor: SELECT * FROM pg_stat_progress_create_index;
Parallel dump and restore
pg_dump -Fc -j 4 -d <name> -f db.dump && pg_restore -j 4 -d <name> db.dump
Benchmark with pgbench
pgbench -c 32 -j 8 -T 60 -P 5 -d <name>; -- init once: pgbench -i -s 100 <name>
Connect to database
psql -h localhost -U myuser -d mydb
List databases
psql -U postgres -c '\l+'