Book Image

PostgreSQL 10 High Performance - Third Edition

By : Enrico Pirozzi
Book Image

PostgreSQL 10 High Performance - Third Edition

By: Enrico Pirozzi

Overview of this book

PostgreSQL database servers have a common set of problems that they encounter as their usage gets heavier and requirements get more demanding. Peek into the future of your PostgreSQL 10 database's problems today. Know the warning signs to look for and how to avoid the most common issues before they even happen. Surprisingly, most PostgreSQL database applications evolve in the same way—choose the right hardware, tune the operating system and server memory use, optimize queries against the database and CPUs with the right indexes, and monitor every layer, from hardware to queries, using tools from inside and outside PostgreSQL. Also, using monitoring insight, PostgreSQL database applications continuously rework the design and configuration. On reaching the limits of a single server, they break things up; connection pooling, caching, partitioning, replication, and parallel queries can all help handle increasing database workloads. By the end of this book, you will have all the knowledge you need to design, run, and manage your PostgreSQL solution while ensuring high performance and high availability
Table of Contents (18 chapters)

Installing a contrib module from source

Building your own PostgreSQL from source code can be a straightforward exercise on some platforms if you have the appropriate requirements already installed on the server. Details are documented at http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/install-procedure.html.

After building the main server code, you'll also need to compile contrib modules by yourself too. Here's an example of how that would work, presuming that your PostgreSQL destination is /usr/local/postgresql, and that there's a directory there named source you put the source code into (this is not intended to be a typical or recommended structure you should use):

$ cd /usr/local/postgresql/source
$ cd contrib/pg_buffercache/
$ make
$ make install
/bin/mkdir -p '/usr/local/postgresql/lib/postgresql'
/bin/mkdir -p '/usr/local/postgresql/share/postgresql/contrib'
/bin/sh ../../config/install-sh -c -m 755 pg_buffercache.so '/usr/local/postgresql/lib/postgresql/pg_buffercache.so'
/bin/sh ../../config/install-sh -c -m 644 ./uninstall_pg_buffercache.sql '/usr/local/postgresql/share/postgresql/contrib'
/bin/sh ../../config/install-sh -c -m 644 pg_buffercache.sql '/usr/local/postgresql/share/postgresql/contrib'
  

It's also possible to build and install all the contrib modules at once by running / from the directory.

Note that some of these have more extensive source code build requirements. The uuid-ossp module is an example of a more challenging one to compile yourself.