Database Administration & Monitoring How much shared memory is PostgreSQL using? (1) – basics 08.09.2021 by Daniel Westermann Have you ever wondered if the value of shared_buffers is the only setting which controls how much shared memory PostgreSQL is actually using? There was a nice addition committed to PostgreSQL 15 recently, which helps in answering(…)
Oracle, PostgreSQL PostgreSQL on Oracle free tier ARM 25.05.2021 by Oracle Team By Franck Pachot . This follows the previous post about the Oracle Cloud ARM compute shape just announced on May 25th. The processor is ARM v8.2 with LSE (atomic instructions) and PostgreSQL can benefit from it (see(…)
AWS, PostgreSQL PostgreSQL on AWS Graviton2: CFLAGS 17.05.2021 by Open source Team By Franck Pachot . In a previous post I’ve compiled PostgreSQL with GCC 7 and GCC 11 with the default options and checked that the ARM v8.2 features were used. However it may not be so simple:(…)
AWS, Database Administration & Monitoring Building a PostgreSQL EC2 AMI for testing the latest commits 03.05.2021 by Daniel Westermann Testing the latest features or bug fixes in PostgreSQL can easily be done by pulling the latest commits from the git repository and compile PostgreSQL from source code. I am doing that frequently on my local sandbox VM but this(…)
AWS, PostgreSQL AWS: PostgreSQL on Graviton2 with newer GCC 10.03.2021 by Open source Team By Franck Pachot . In the previous post I have run PostgreSQL on AWS m6gd.2xlarge (ARM Graviton2 processor). I didn’t precise the compilation option and this post will give more details following this feedback:(…)
AWS, PostgreSQL AWS: PostgreSQL on Graviton2 08.03.2021 by Open source Team By Franck Pachot . On the AWS free tier, you can run a t2.micro instance for 750 hours per month during the first 12 month after sign-up date. And currently, until June 2021, you can also run a(…)
Database Administration & Monitoring PostgreSQL on FreeBSD, installation from packages 20.02.2021 by Daniel Westermann In the last two posts we installed FreeBSD, configured networking, updated the system, installed bash and had a quick look at kernel parameters. In this post we'll install PostgreSQL from packages. Of course you(…)
Database Administration & Monitoring PostgreSQL on FreeBSD, updating & configuration 19.02.2021 by Daniel Westermann In the last post we installed FreeBSD, configured the keyboard, time zone and the first network interface, which gets it's IP address via DHCP. In this post we'll look at how we can configure the second interface,(…)
Cloud, Database Administration & Monitoring SUSE Manager 4.1 – installation 16.02.2021 by Open source Team What if you need absolute control over maintenance and package deployment or if you need to keep them up to date or if you need to automate the software management and the system provisioning with a high level of security,(…)
PostgreSQL PostgreSQL on Linux: what is cached? 14.02.2021 by Open source Team By Franck Pachot . In a recent tweet I wanted to highlight the importance of knowing what you measure with pgbench, because looking at “Transactions per second” without knowing if you are in shared buffer cache hits, or filesystem(…)