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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)

Disk layout for PostgreSQL

Since PostgreSQL uses standard files for all its files, there are several parts of the database you can relocate to somewhere else just by moving the associated files and adding a symbolic link to the new location.

Symbolic links

Symbolic links (also called symlinks) are just entries in a filesystem directory that point towards another location. UNIX systems originally preferred to use what are called hard links, which link to the new location directly. The entry in the filesystem literally points to another spot on the disk. To make this easier to manage, the normal approach now is to use soft symlinks, which are easily visible. The most common thing to relocate using a symlink in PostgreSQL is...