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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)

Solaris and FreeBSD filesystems

While not identical, the common BSD heritage of Solaris and FreeBSD have much in common in terms of their respective filesystems, and both implement the same basic ZFS code as their current, most advanced filesystem. Choosing between the older UFS options and ZFS involves the usual performance and reliability tradeoffs found in so many other disk related options. In general, ZFS is particularly good at handling very large databases, while UFS can perform better on smaller ones. The feature sets are different enough that this may not be the deciding factor for your installation though.

Solaris UFS

The original Unix file system (UFS) implementation, also called the Berkley Fast File System or...