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PostgreSQL High Performance Cookbook

By : Chitij Chauhan, Dinesh Kumar
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PostgreSQL High Performance Cookbook

By: Chitij Chauhan, Dinesh Kumar

Overview of this book

PostgreSQL is one of the most powerful and easy to use database management systems. It has strong support from the community and is being actively developed with a new release every year. PostgreSQL supports the most advanced features included in SQL standards. It also provides NoSQL capabilities and very rich data types and extensions. All of this makes PostgreSQL a very attractive solution in software systems. If you run a database, you want it to perform well and you want to be able to secure it. As the world’s most advanced open source database, PostgreSQL has unique built-in ways to achieve these goals. This book will show you a multitude of ways to enhance your database’s performance and give you insights into measuring and optimizing a PostgreSQL database to achieve better performance. This book is your one-stop guide to elevate your PostgreSQL knowledge to the next level. First, you’ll get familiarized with essential developer/administrator concepts such as load balancing, connection pooling, and distributing connections to multiple nodes. Next, you will explore memory optimization techniques before exploring the security controls offered by PostgreSQL. Then, you will move on to the essential database/server monitoring and replication strategies with PostgreSQL. Finally, you will learn about query processing algorithms.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
PostgreSQL High Performance Cookbook
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface

Installing PL/Proxy


PL/Proxy is a database partitioning system that is implemented as a PL language. PL/Proxy makes it straightforward to split large independent tables among multiple nodes in a way that almost allows unbounded scalability. PL/Proxy scaling works on both read and write workloads. The main idea is that the proxy function will be set up with the same signature as the remote function to be called, so only the destination information needs be specified inside the proxy function body.

In this recipe, we are going to show the steps required to install PL/Proxy.

How to do it...

The following are the steps to install PL/Proxy:

  1. Go to the following website and download the latest tarball of PL/Proxy: http://pgfoundry.org/projects/plproxy/.

  2. Once the latest version of PL/Proxy is downloaded, then the next step is to unpack the TAR archive:

            tar xvfz plproxy-2.5.tar.gz 
    
    
  3. Once the TAR archive has been unpacked, the next step is to enter the newly created directory and start the...