I'm going to restrict myself to official documentation here as much as possible.... How to dump things to any file the correct way using the postgres COPY comm

I'm going to restrict myself to official documentation here as much as possible.... How to dump things to any file the correct way using the postgres COPY command: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.4/static/sql-copy.html http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.4/static/sql-copy.html Stored procedures: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.4/static/plpgsql.html http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.4/static/plpgsql.html (ok, this one is a bit big... but PL/pgSQL is damn powerful) Clustering is a topic that lives outside PostgreSQL, there are some helpful posts on the wiki though: https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Replication,_Clustering,_and_Connection_Pooling#Clustering https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Replication,_Clustering,_an... https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Clustering https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Clustering Failover: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.4/static/warm-standby-failover.html http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.4/static/warm-standby-failo... ( You should really read all of this though: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.4/static/high-availability.html http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.4/static/high-availability.... ) Recovering from a crash: This is a difficult topic. There isn't a great single page in the documentation, but essentially it just replays x-logs (from what I remember last, this may have changed), and if you lose them, there are a number of options. pg_restore from a backup, use this: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.2/static/runtime-config-developer.html#GUC-ZERO-DAMAGED-PAGES.. http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.2/static/runtime-config-dev.... the list is pretty long for options.