Skip to Content
PostgreSQL 9.0 High Performance
book

PostgreSQL 9.0 High Performance

by Gregory Smith
October 2010
Intermediate to advanced
468 pages
11h 35m
English
Packt Publishing
Content preview from PostgreSQL 9.0 High Performance

Dedicated server guidelines

Initial server tuning can be turned into a fairly mechanical process:

  1. Adjust the logging default to be more verbose.
  2. Determine how large to set shared_buffers to. Start at 25 percent of system memory. Considering adjusting upward if you're on a recent PostgreSQL version with spread checkpoints and know your workload benefits from giving memory directory to the buffer cache. If you're on a platform where this parameter is not so useful, limit its value or adjust downward accordingly.
  3. Estimate your maximum connections generously, as this is a hard limit; clients will be refused connection once it's reached.
  4. Start the server with these initial parameters. Note how much memory is still available for the OS filesystem cache. ...
Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
and much more.

Read now

Unlock full access

More than 5,000 organizations count on O’Reilly

AirBnbBlueOriginElectronic ArtsHomeDepotNasdaqRakutenTata Consultancy Services

QuotationMarkO’Reilly covers everything we've got, with content to help us build a world-class technology community, upgrade the capabilities and competencies of our teams, and improve overall team performance as well as their engagement.
Julian F.
Head of Cybersecurity
QuotationMarkI wanted to learn C and C++, but it didn't click for me until I picked up an O'Reilly book. When I went on the O’Reilly platform, I was astonished to find all the books there, plus live events and sandboxes so you could play around with the technology.
Addison B.
Field Engineer
QuotationMarkI’ve been on the O’Reilly platform for more than eight years. I use a couple of learning platforms, but I'm on O'Reilly more than anybody else. When you're there, you start learning. I'm never disappointed.
Amir M.
Data Platform Tech Lead
QuotationMarkI'm always learning. So when I got on to O'Reilly, I was like a kid in a candy store. There are playlists. There are answers. There's on-demand training. It's worth its weight in gold, in terms of what it allows me to do.
Mark W.
Embedded Software Engineer

You might also like

PostgreSQL 10 High Performance - Third Edition

PostgreSQL 10 High Performance - Third Edition

Enrico Pirozzi
Mastering PostgreSQL 9.6

Mastering PostgreSQL 9.6

Hans-Jürgen Schönig
PostgreSQL 13 Cookbook

PostgreSQL 13 Cookbook

Vallarapu Naga Avinash Kumar
PostgreSQL High Performance Cookbook

PostgreSQL High Performance Cookbook

Dinesh Kumar, Chitij Chauhan

Publisher Resources

ISBN: 9781849510301