November 2019
Beginner to intermediate
470 pages
11h 59m
English
Let's now turn our attention to one of the biggest achievements (in my judgment) of the past 10 years in the PostgreSQL universe: pluggable storage engines. What is the general problem? For the past, roughly, 30 years, the PostgreSQL community has focused its attention and development efforts on one single storage engine, the heap. While a general-purpose storage engine performs well in many cases, some situations demand different approaches to storage. This is especially true if you are running analytics or high volumes of UPDATE statements changing millions or even billions of rows, given an OLTP workload.
So, what is the problem with a conventional row store? Suppose you are running analytics ...
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