Preface

Purpose of this document

The Symfoware Server database system extends the PostgreSQL features and runs on the Windows platform.

This document is the Symfoware Server Operation Guide.

Intended readers

This document is intended for those who install and operate Symfoware Server.

Readers of this document are assumed to have general knowledge of:

PostgreSQL
SQL
Windows

Structure of this document

This document is structured as follows:

Chapter 1 Operating Symfoware Server: Describes how to operate Symfoware Server.

Chapter 2 Starting an Instance and Creating a Database: Describes how to start a Symfoware Server instance, and how to create a database.

Chapter 3 Backing Up the Database: Describes how to back up the database.

Chapter 4 Configuring Secure Communication Using Secure Sockets Layer: Describes communication data encryption between the client and the server.

Chapter 5 Protecting Storage Data Using Transparent Data Encryption: Describes how to encrypt the data to be stored in the database.

Chapter 6 Periodic Operations: Describes the periodic database operations that must be performed on Symfoware Server.

Chapter 7 Setting up and Operating PL/extJava: Describes the Setting up and Operating PL/extJava.

Chapter 8 Actions when an Error Occurs: Describes how to perform recovery when disk failure or data corruption occurs.

Appendix A Parameters: Describes the Symfoware Server parameters.

Appendix B System Administration Functions: Describes the system administration functions of Symfoware Server.

Appendix C System Views: Describes how to use the system view in Symfoware Server.

Appendix D Activating and Stopping the Web Server Feature of WebAdmin: Describes how to activate and stop WebAdmin (Web server feature).

Appendix E Collecting Failure Investigation Data: Describes how to collect information for initial investigation.

Appendix F Notes on PL/extJava: Describes the note on PL/extJava.

Appendix G PL/extJava Log Information: Describes the PL/extJava log information.

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Issue date and version

Second edition: December 2014
First edition: April 2014