Thursday, June 28, 2012

Absurd Shared Memory Limits

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Today, I fixed a problem.  Or at least, I think I fixed it.  Time will tell.  But Thom Brown seems pretty happy , and so does Dan Farina .  ...
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Wednesday, June 06, 2012

perf: the good, the bad, the ugly

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For the past few months, I've spent a good deal of time using the Linux utility perf to profile PostgreSQL .  On the whole, I've be...
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Thursday, May 24, 2012

PostgreSQL 9.3 Development Schedule

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At the PGCon 2012 Developer Meeting , we discussed the schedule for PostgreSQL 9.3 development.  Here's what we agreed: CommitFest #1:...
Monday, April 09, 2012

Don't Take Me Too Seriously

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My recent blog post showing linear read-scaling out to 64 cores has generated a lot of attention, which I frankly did not expect.  To be su...
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Tuesday, April 03, 2012

Did I Say 32 Cores? How about 64?

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Remember when I blogged about linear read scalability out to 32 cores ? Well, the awesome Nate Boley provided me with access to his brand n...
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Monday, March 26, 2012

Why Is My Database Corrupted?

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Working in the support department ( as I do ) is a good way to hear lots of horror stories.  From time to time, we get reports of what can o...
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Thursday, March 15, 2012

Tuning shared_buffers and wal_buffers

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I spend a lot of time answering questions about PostgreSQL, and one of the questions I get asked frequently is: how should I set shared_buff...
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