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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)

Transaction Processing Performance Council benchmarks

The TPC-B benchmark is just one of many created by the TPC. It's the second benchmark from them for what's called an Online Transaction Processing (OLTP) workload, which is one heavy on database writes. A more current benchmark in that same style is their TPC-C (http://www.tpc.org/tpcc/) which includes what can be a fairly complicated mix of transaction types that all revolve around order entry and related inventory in a warehouse.

Using genuine TPC benchmarks isn't something practical to do on your own unless you're a major vendor prepared to license them and follow stringent reporting guidelines. However, there are free and open source clones of some of their benchmarks available, which follow the spirit of the benchmark without giving results that you can necessarily compare as directly across different...