Devrim Gunduz gives a presentation on Write-Ahead Logging (WAL) in PostgreSQL. WAL logs all transactions to files called write-ahead logs (WAL files) before changes are written to data files. This allows for crash recovery by replaying WAL files. WAL files are used for replication, backup, and point-in-time recovery (PITR) by replaying WAL files to restore the database to a previous state. Checkpoints write all dirty shared buffers to disk and update the pg_control file with the checkpoint location.
This document provides an introduction and overview of PostgreSQL, including its history, features, installation, usage and SQL capabilities. It describes how to create and manipulate databases, tables, views, and how to insert, query, update and delete data. It also covers transaction management, functions, constraints and other advanced topics.
In 40 minutes the audience will learn a variety of ways to make postgresql database suddenly go out of memory on a box with half a terabyte of RAM.
Developer's and DBA's best practices for preventing this will also be discussed, as well as a bit of Postgres and Linux memory management internals.
The paperback version is available on lulu.com there http://goo.gl/fraa8o
This is the first volume of the postgresql database administration book. The book covers the steps for installing, configuring and administering a PostgreSQL 9.3 on Linux debian. The book covers the logical and physical aspect of PostgreSQL. Two chapters are dedicated to the backup/restore topic.
This document discusses streaming replication in PostgreSQL. It covers how streaming replication works, including the write-ahead log and replication processes. It also discusses setting up replication between a primary and standby server, including configuring the servers and verifying replication is working properly. Monitoring replication is discussed along with views and functions for checking replication status. Maintenance tasks like adding or removing standbys and pausing replication are also mentioned.
MariaDB 10.0 introduces domain-based parallel replication which allows transactions in different domains to execute concurrently on replicas. This can result in out-of-order transaction commit. MariaDB 10.1 adds optimistic parallel replication which maintains commit order. The document discusses various parallel replication techniques in MySQL and MariaDB including schema-based replication in MySQL 5.6 and logical clock replication in MySQL 5.7. It provides performance benchmarks of these techniques from Booking.com's database environments.
PostgreSQL is designed to be easily extensible. For this reason, extensions loaded into the database can function just like features that are built in. In this session, we will learn more about PostgreSQL extension framework, how are they built, look at some popular extensions, management of these extensions in your deployments.
The document discusses the Performance Schema in MySQL. It provides an overview of what the Performance Schema is and how it can be used to monitor events within a MySQL server. It also describes how to configure the Performance Schema by setting up actors, objects, instruments, consumers and threads to control what is monitored. Finally, it explains how to initialize the Performance Schema by truncating existing summary tables before collecting new performance data.
This document discusses PostgreSQL replication. It provides an overview of replication, including its history and features. Replication allows data to be copied from a primary database to one or more standby databases. This allows for high availability, load balancing, and read scaling. The document describes asynchronous and synchronous replication modes.
En savoir plus sur www.opensourceschool.fr
Ce support est diffusé sous licence Creative Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0 FR) Attribution - Partage dans les Mêmes Conditions 3.0 France
Plan :
1. Introduction
2. Installation
3. The psql client
4. Authentication and privileges
5. Backup and restoration
6. Internal Architecture
7. Performance optimization
8. Stats and monitoring
9. Logs
10. Replication
Simplifying Change Data Capture using Databricks DeltaDatabricks
In this talk, we will present recent enhancements to the techniques previously discussed in this blog: https://databricks.com/blog/2018/10/29/simplifying-change-data-capture-with-databricks-delta.html. We will start by discussing the different CDC architectures that can be deployed in concert with Databricks Delta. We will then use notebooks to demonstrate updated CDC SQL and look at performance tuning considerations for both batch as well as streaming CDC pipelines into Delta.
This document provides an overview of advanced PostgreSQL administration topics covered in a presentation, including installation, initialization, configuration, starting and stopping the Postmaster, connections, authentication, security, data directories, shared memory sizing, the write-ahead log, and vacuum settings. The document includes configuration examples from postgresql.conf and discusses parameters for tuning memory usage, connections, authentication and security.
PostgreSQL Replication High Availability MethodsMydbops
This slides illustrates the need for replication in PostgreSQL, why do you need a replication DB topology, terminologies, replication nodes and many more.
PostgreSQL (or Postgres) began its life in 1986 as POSTGRES, a research project of the University of California at Berkeley.
PostgreSQL isn't just relational, it's object-relational.it's object-relational. This gives it some advantages over other open source SQL databases like MySQL, MariaDB and Firebird.
This is a introduction to PostgreSQL that provides a brief overview of PostgreSQL's architecture, features and ecosystem. It was delivered at NYLUG on Nov 24, 2014.
http://www.meetup.com/nylug-meetings/events/180533472/
This presentation covers all aspects of PostgreSQL administration, including installation, security, file structure, configuration, reporting, backup, daily maintenance, monitoring activity, disk space computations, and disaster recovery. It shows how to control host connectivity, configure the server, find the query being run by each session, and find the disk space used by each database.
Orchestrator allows for easy MySQL failover by monitoring the cluster and promoting a new master when failures occur. Two test cases were demonstrated: 1) using a VIP and scripts to redirect connections during failover and 2) integrating with Proxysql to separate reads and writes and automatically redirect write transactions during failover while keeping read queries distributed. Both cases resulted in failover occurring within 16 seconds while maintaining application availability.
The document discusses PostgreSQL backup and recovery options including:
- pg_dump and pg_dumpall for creating database and cluster backups respectively.
- pg_restore for restoring backups in various formats.
- Point-in-time recovery (PITR) which allows restoring the database to a previous state by restoring a base backup and replaying write-ahead log (WAL) segments up to a specific point in time.
- The process for enabling and performing PITR including configuring WAL archiving, taking base backups, and restoring from backups while replaying WAL segments.
This document provides an agenda and background information for a presentation on PostgreSQL. The agenda includes topics such as practical use of PostgreSQL, features, replication, and how to get started. The background section discusses the history and development of PostgreSQL, including its origins from INGRES and POSTGRES projects. It also introduces the PostgreSQL Global Development Team.
MySQL Parallel Replication: All the 5.7 and 8.0 Details (LOGICAL_CLOCK)Jean-François Gagné
To get better replication speed and less lag, MySQL implements parallel replication in the same schema, also known as LOGICAL_CLOCK. But fully benefiting from this feature is not as simple as just enabling it.
In this talk, I explain in detail how this feature works. I also cover how to optimize parallel replication and the improvements made in MySQL 8.0 and back-ported in 5.7 (Write Sets), greatly improving the potential for parallel execution on replicas (but needing RBR).
Come to this talk to get all the details about MySQL 5.7 and 8.0 Parallel Replication.
How to set up orchestrator to manage thousands of MySQL serversSimon J Mudd
This document discusses how to scale Orchestrator to manage thousands of MySQL servers. It describes how Booking.com uses Orchestrator to manage their thousands of MySQL servers. As the number of monitored servers increases, integration with internal infrastructure is needed, Orchestrator performance must be optimized, and high availability and wider user access features are added. The document provides examples of configuration settings and special considerations needed to effectively use Orchestrator at large scale.
Kevin Kempter PostgreSQL Backup and Recovery Methods @ Postgres OpenPostgresOpen
This document provides an overview of PostgreSQL backup and recovery methods, including pg_dump, pg_dumpall, psql, pg_restore, and point-in-time recovery (PITR). It discusses the options and usage of each tool and provides examples.
MySQL uses different storage engines to store, retrieve and index data. The major storage engines are MyISAM, InnoDB, MEMORY, and ARCHIVE. MyISAM uses table-level locking and supports full-text searching but not transactions. InnoDB supports transactions, row-level locking and foreign keys but with more overhead than MyISAM. MEMORY stores data in memory for very fast access but data is lost on server restart. ARCHIVE is for read-only tables to improve performance and reduce storage requirements.
We talk a lot about Galera Cluster being great for High Availability, but what about Disaster Recovery (DR)? Database outages can occur when you lose a data centre due to data center power outages or natural disaster, so why not plan appropriately in advance?
In this webinar, we will discuss the business considerations including achieving the highest possible uptime, analysis business impact as well as risk, focus on disaster recovery itself, as well as discussing various scenarios, from having no offsite data to having synchronous replication to another data centre.
This webinar will cover MySQL with Galera Cluster, as well as branches MariaDB Galera Cluster as well as Percona XtraDB Cluster (PXC). We will focus on architecture solutions, DR scenarios and have you on your way to success at the end of it.
This document discusses PostgreSQL statistics and how to use them effectively. It provides an overview of various PostgreSQL statistics sources like views, functions and third-party tools. It then demonstrates how to analyze specific statistics like those for databases, tables, indexes, replication and query activity to identify anomalies, optimize performance and troubleshoot issues.
This technical presentation by EDB Dave Thomas, Systems Engineer provides an overview of:
1) BGWriter/Writer Process
2) Wall Writer Process
3) Stats Collector Process
4) Autovacuum Launch Process
5) Syslogger Process/Logger process
6) Archiver Process
7) WAL Send/Receive Processes
The document discusses the Performance Schema in MySQL. It provides an overview of what the Performance Schema is and how it can be used to monitor events within a MySQL server. It also describes how to configure the Performance Schema by setting up actors, objects, instruments, consumers and threads to control what is monitored. Finally, it explains how to initialize the Performance Schema by truncating existing summary tables before collecting new performance data.
This document discusses PostgreSQL replication. It provides an overview of replication, including its history and features. Replication allows data to be copied from a primary database to one or more standby databases. This allows for high availability, load balancing, and read scaling. The document describes asynchronous and synchronous replication modes.
En savoir plus sur www.opensourceschool.fr
Ce support est diffusé sous licence Creative Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0 FR) Attribution - Partage dans les Mêmes Conditions 3.0 France
Plan :
1. Introduction
2. Installation
3. The psql client
4. Authentication and privileges
5. Backup and restoration
6. Internal Architecture
7. Performance optimization
8. Stats and monitoring
9. Logs
10. Replication
Simplifying Change Data Capture using Databricks DeltaDatabricks
In this talk, we will present recent enhancements to the techniques previously discussed in this blog: https://databricks.com/blog/2018/10/29/simplifying-change-data-capture-with-databricks-delta.html. We will start by discussing the different CDC architectures that can be deployed in concert with Databricks Delta. We will then use notebooks to demonstrate updated CDC SQL and look at performance tuning considerations for both batch as well as streaming CDC pipelines into Delta.
This document provides an overview of advanced PostgreSQL administration topics covered in a presentation, including installation, initialization, configuration, starting and stopping the Postmaster, connections, authentication, security, data directories, shared memory sizing, the write-ahead log, and vacuum settings. The document includes configuration examples from postgresql.conf and discusses parameters for tuning memory usage, connections, authentication and security.
PostgreSQL Replication High Availability MethodsMydbops
This slides illustrates the need for replication in PostgreSQL, why do you need a replication DB topology, terminologies, replication nodes and many more.
PostgreSQL (or Postgres) began its life in 1986 as POSTGRES, a research project of the University of California at Berkeley.
PostgreSQL isn't just relational, it's object-relational.it's object-relational. This gives it some advantages over other open source SQL databases like MySQL, MariaDB and Firebird.
This is a introduction to PostgreSQL that provides a brief overview of PostgreSQL's architecture, features and ecosystem. It was delivered at NYLUG on Nov 24, 2014.
http://www.meetup.com/nylug-meetings/events/180533472/
This presentation covers all aspects of PostgreSQL administration, including installation, security, file structure, configuration, reporting, backup, daily maintenance, monitoring activity, disk space computations, and disaster recovery. It shows how to control host connectivity, configure the server, find the query being run by each session, and find the disk space used by each database.
Orchestrator allows for easy MySQL failover by monitoring the cluster and promoting a new master when failures occur. Two test cases were demonstrated: 1) using a VIP and scripts to redirect connections during failover and 2) integrating with Proxysql to separate reads and writes and automatically redirect write transactions during failover while keeping read queries distributed. Both cases resulted in failover occurring within 16 seconds while maintaining application availability.
The document discusses PostgreSQL backup and recovery options including:
- pg_dump and pg_dumpall for creating database and cluster backups respectively.
- pg_restore for restoring backups in various formats.
- Point-in-time recovery (PITR) which allows restoring the database to a previous state by restoring a base backup and replaying write-ahead log (WAL) segments up to a specific point in time.
- The process for enabling and performing PITR including configuring WAL archiving, taking base backups, and restoring from backups while replaying WAL segments.
This document provides an agenda and background information for a presentation on PostgreSQL. The agenda includes topics such as practical use of PostgreSQL, features, replication, and how to get started. The background section discusses the history and development of PostgreSQL, including its origins from INGRES and POSTGRES projects. It also introduces the PostgreSQL Global Development Team.
MySQL Parallel Replication: All the 5.7 and 8.0 Details (LOGICAL_CLOCK)Jean-François Gagné
To get better replication speed and less lag, MySQL implements parallel replication in the same schema, also known as LOGICAL_CLOCK. But fully benefiting from this feature is not as simple as just enabling it.
In this talk, I explain in detail how this feature works. I also cover how to optimize parallel replication and the improvements made in MySQL 8.0 and back-ported in 5.7 (Write Sets), greatly improving the potential for parallel execution on replicas (but needing RBR).
Come to this talk to get all the details about MySQL 5.7 and 8.0 Parallel Replication.
How to set up orchestrator to manage thousands of MySQL serversSimon J Mudd
This document discusses how to scale Orchestrator to manage thousands of MySQL servers. It describes how Booking.com uses Orchestrator to manage their thousands of MySQL servers. As the number of monitored servers increases, integration with internal infrastructure is needed, Orchestrator performance must be optimized, and high availability and wider user access features are added. The document provides examples of configuration settings and special considerations needed to effectively use Orchestrator at large scale.
Kevin Kempter PostgreSQL Backup and Recovery Methods @ Postgres OpenPostgresOpen
This document provides an overview of PostgreSQL backup and recovery methods, including pg_dump, pg_dumpall, psql, pg_restore, and point-in-time recovery (PITR). It discusses the options and usage of each tool and provides examples.
MySQL uses different storage engines to store, retrieve and index data. The major storage engines are MyISAM, InnoDB, MEMORY, and ARCHIVE. MyISAM uses table-level locking and supports full-text searching but not transactions. InnoDB supports transactions, row-level locking and foreign keys but with more overhead than MyISAM. MEMORY stores data in memory for very fast access but data is lost on server restart. ARCHIVE is for read-only tables to improve performance and reduce storage requirements.
We talk a lot about Galera Cluster being great for High Availability, but what about Disaster Recovery (DR)? Database outages can occur when you lose a data centre due to data center power outages or natural disaster, so why not plan appropriately in advance?
In this webinar, we will discuss the business considerations including achieving the highest possible uptime, analysis business impact as well as risk, focus on disaster recovery itself, as well as discussing various scenarios, from having no offsite data to having synchronous replication to another data centre.
This webinar will cover MySQL with Galera Cluster, as well as branches MariaDB Galera Cluster as well as Percona XtraDB Cluster (PXC). We will focus on architecture solutions, DR scenarios and have you on your way to success at the end of it.
This document discusses PostgreSQL statistics and how to use them effectively. It provides an overview of various PostgreSQL statistics sources like views, functions and third-party tools. It then demonstrates how to analyze specific statistics like those for databases, tables, indexes, replication and query activity to identify anomalies, optimize performance and troubleshoot issues.
This technical presentation by EDB Dave Thomas, Systems Engineer provides an overview of:
1) BGWriter/Writer Process
2) Wall Writer Process
3) Stats Collector Process
4) Autovacuum Launch Process
5) Syslogger Process/Logger process
6) Archiver Process
7) WAL Send/Receive Processes
PGConf.ASIA 2019 Bali - Tune Your LInux Box, Not Just PostgreSQL - Ibrar AhmedEqunix Business Solutions
This document discusses tuning Linux and PostgreSQL for performance. It recommends:
- Tuning Linux kernel parameters like huge pages, swappiness, and overcommit memory. Huge pages can improve TLB performance.
- Tuning PostgreSQL parameters like shared_buffers, work_mem, and checkpoint_timeout. Shared_buffers stores the most frequently accessed data.
- Other tips include choosing proper hardware, OS, and database based on workload. Tuning queries and applications can also boost performance.
This document provides an overview of Oracle database architecture including:
- The basic instance-based architecture with background processes like DBWR, LGWR, and processes like SMON and PMON.
- Components of the System Global Area (SGA) like the buffer cache and redo log buffer.
- The Program Global Area (PGA) used by server processes.
- Real Application Clusters (RAC) which allows clustering of instances across nodes using shared storage. RAC requires Oracle Grid Infrastructure, ASM, and specific hardware and network configurations.
Operating System
Topic Memory Management
for Btech/Bsc (C.S)/BCA...
Memory management is the functionality of an operating system which handles or manages primary memory. Memory management keeps track of each and every memory location either it is allocated to some process or it is free. It checks how much memory is to be allocated to processes. It decides which process will get memory at what time. It tracks whenever some memory gets freed or unallocated and correspondingly it updates the status.
This document discusses how to optimize performance in SQL Server. It covers:
1) Why performance tuning is necessary to allow systems to scale, improve performance, and save costs.
2) How to optimize SQL Server performance by addressing CPU, memory, I/O, and other factors like compression and partitioning.
3) How to optimize the database for performance through techniques like schema design, indexing, locking, and query optimization.
Investigate SQL Server Memory Like Sherlock HolmesRichard Douglas
The document discusses optimizing memory usage in SQL Server. It covers how SQL Server uses memory, including the buffer pool and plan cache. It discusses different memory models and settings like max server memory. It provides views and queries to monitor memory usage and pressure, and describes techniques to intentionally create internal memory pressure to encourage plan cache churn.
The document summarizes new features in Oracle Database 12c from Oracle 11g that would help a DBA currently using 11g. It lists and briefly describes features such as the READ privilege, temporary undo, online data file move, DDL logging, and many others. The objectives are to make the DBA aware of useful 12c features when working with a 12c database and to discuss each feature at a high level within 90 seconds.
The document provides an overview of Oracle 10g database architecture including its physical and logical structures as well as processes. Physically, a database consists of datafiles, redo logs, and control files. Logically, it is divided into tablespaces containing schemas, segments, and other objects. The Oracle instance comprises the system global area (SGA) shared memory and background processes that manage tasks like writing redo logs and checkpointing data blocks. User processes connect to the database through sessions allocated in the program global area.
Problems with PostgreSQL on Multi-core Systems with MultiTerabyte DataJignesh Shah
This document discusses PostgreSQL performance on multi-core systems with multi-terabyte data. It covers current market trends towards more cores and larger data sizes. Benchmark results show that PostgreSQL scales well on inserts up to a certain number of clients/cores but struggles with OLTP and TPC-E workloads due to lock contention. Issues are identified with sequential scans, index scans, and maintenance tasks like VACUUM as data sizes increase. The document proposes making PostgreSQL utilities and tools able to leverage multiple cores/processes to improve performance on modern hardware.
MariaDB Server Performance Tuning & OptimizationMariaDB plc
This document discusses various techniques for optimizing MariaDB server performance, including:
- Tuning configuration settings like the buffer pool size, query cache size, and thread pool settings.
- Monitoring server metrics like CPU usage, memory usage, disk I/O, and MariaDB-specific metrics.
- Analyzing slow queries with the slow query log and EXPLAIN statements to identify optimization opportunities like adding indexes.
The document provides an overview of Oracle database physical and logical structures, background processes, backup methods, and administrative tasks. It describes key components like datafiles, control files, redo logs, tablespaces, schemas and segments that make up the physical and logical structure. It also explains the system global area (SGA) and program global area (PGA) memory structures and background processes like SMON, PMON, DBWR, LGWR and ARCH that manage the database instance. Common backup methods like cold backups, hot backups and logical exports are summarized. Finally, it lists some daily, weekly and other administrative tasks.
Operating systems use main memory management techniques like paging and segmentation to allocate memory to processes efficiently. Paging divides both logical and physical memory into fixed-size pages. It uses a page table to map logical page numbers to physical frame numbers. This allows processes to be allocated non-contiguous physical frames. A translation lookaside buffer (TLB) caches recent page translations to improve performance by avoiding slow accesses to the page table in memory. Protection bits and valid/invalid bits ensure processes only access their allocated memory regions.
Optimizing elastic search on google compute engineBhuvaneshwaran R
If you are running the elastic search clusters on the GCE, then we need to take a look at the Capacity planning, OS level and Elasticsearch level optimization. I have presented this at GDG Delhi on Feb 22,2020.
- Mongo DB is an open-source document database that provides high performance, a rich query language, high availability through clustering, and horizontal scalability through sharding. It stores data in BSON format and supports indexes, backups, and replication.
- Mongo DB is best for operational applications using unstructured or semi-structured data that require large scalability and multi-datacenter support. It is not recommended for applications with complex calculations, finance data, or those that scan large data subsets.
- The next session will provide a security and replication overview and include demonstrations of installation, document creation, queries, indexes, backups, and replication and sharding if possible.
Best Practices with PostgreSQL on SolarisJignesh Shah
This document provides best practices for deploying PostgreSQL on Solaris, including:
- Using Solaris 10 or latest Solaris Express for support and features
- Separating PostgreSQL data files onto different file systems tuned for each type of IO
- Tuning Solaris parameters like maxphys, klustsize, and UFS buffer cache size
- Configuring PostgreSQL parameters like fdatasync, commit_delay, wal_buffers
- Monitoring key metrics like memory, CPU, and IO usage at the Solaris and PostgreSQL level
This document discusses Spark shuffle, which is an expensive operation that involves data partitioning, serialization/deserialization, compression, and disk I/O. It provides an overview of how shuffle works in Spark and the history of optimizations like sort-based shuffle and an external shuffle service. Key concepts discussed include shuffle writers, readers, and the pluggable block transfer service that handles data transfer. The document also covers shuffle-related configuration options and potential future work.
This document provides an overview of key SAP BASIS concepts and tasks. It begins with general information about SAP and BASIS, then covers topics like client maintenance, user administration, background processes, spool management, the Oracle database, transport management, memory management, security, monitoring, performance, upgrades, support packages, and utilities. For each topic, it lists relevant transactions and provides brief explanations and examples. The document is intended as a self-study guide for BASIS administrators to learn about common administrative functions in SAP.
This document provides information about MongoDB replication and sharding. It discusses what replication is, how to set up replication on Windows including starting primary and secondary servers and verifying replication. It also discusses best practices for replication including always using replica sets, using replica sets to offload reads from primary, and using an odd number of replicas. The document also discusses how to set up MongoDB replication on Linux in a step-by-step process and how to check the replication status. It provides commands for adding and removing MongoDB instances from a replica set and making a primary secondary. Finally, it discusses what sharding is in MongoDB, the concept of sharding keys, and provides a high-level overview of implementing sharding in MongoDB including using
MySQL Database – Basic User Guide
- The document discusses MySQL database architecture including physical and logical structures. It describes configuration files, log files, storage engines and SQL execution process. Key points covered include MySQL configuration file, error log, general log, slow query log, binary log and storage engines like InnoDB, MyISAM, MEMORY etc. User management topics like CREATE USER, GRANT, REVOKE are also summarized.
This document describes how to configure MySQL database replication between a master and slave server. The key steps are:
1. Configure the master server by editing its configuration file to enable binary logging and set the server ID. Create a replication user and grant privileges.
2. Export the databases from the master using mysqldump.
3. Configure the slave server by editing its configuration file to point to the master server. Import the database dump. Start replication on the slave.
4. Verify replication is working by inserting data on the master and checking it is replicated to the slave.
PostgreSQL supports logical replication which replicates data changes but not DDL commands. To implement logical replication, one must create a subscription, which monitors replication from the publisher to subscriber. Monitoring replication involves checking the status of the replication between databases.
Covered Database Maintenance & Performance and Concurrency :
1. PostgreSQL Tuning and Performance
2. Find and Tune Slow Running Queries
3. Collecting regular statistics from pg_stat* views
4. Finding out what makes SQL slow
5. Speeding up queries without rewriting them
6. Discovering why a query is not using an index
7. Forcing a query to use an index
8. EXPLAIN and SQL Execution
9. Workload Analysis
Covered:
1. Databases and Schemas
2. Tablespaces
3. Data Type
4. Exploring Databases
5. Locating the database server's message log
6. Locating the database's system identifier
7. Listing databases on this database server
8. How much disk space does a table use?
9. Which are my biggest tables?
10. How many rows are there in a table?
11. Quickly estimating the number of rows in a table
12. Understanding object dependencies
Enabling BIM / GIS integrations with Other Systems with FMESafe Software
Jacobs has successfully utilized FME to tackle the complexities of integrating diverse data sources in a confidential $1 billion campus improvement project. The project aimed to create a comprehensive digital twin by merging Building Information Modeling (BIM) data, Construction Operations Building Information Exchange (COBie) data, and various other data sources into a unified Geographic Information System (GIS) platform. The challenge lay in the disparate nature of these data sources, which were siloed and incompatible with each other, hindering efficient data management and decision-making processes.
To address this, Jacobs leveraged FME to automate the extraction, transformation, and loading (ETL) of data between ArcGIS Indoors and IBM Maximo. This process ensured accurate transfer of maintainable asset and work order data, creating a comprehensive 2D and 3D representation of the campus for Facility Management. FME's server capabilities enabled real-time updates and synchronization between ArcGIS Indoors and Maximo, facilitating automatic updates of asset information and work orders. Additionally, Survey123 forms allowed field personnel to capture and submit data directly from their mobile devices, triggering FME workflows via webhooks for real-time data updates. This seamless integration has significantly enhanced data management, improved decision-making processes, and ensured data consistency across the project lifecycle.
מכונות CNC קידוח אנכיות הן הבחירה הנכונה והטובה ביותר לקידוח ארונות וארגזים לייצור רהיטים. החלק נוסע לאורך ציר ה-x באמצעות ציר דיגיטלי מדויק, ותפוס ע"י צבת מכנית, כך שאין צורך לבצע setup (התאמות) לגדלים שונים של חלקים.
No-Code Workflows for CAD & 3D Data: Scaling AI-Driven InfrastructureSafe Software
When projects depend on fast, reliable spatial data, every minute counts.
AI Clearing needed a faster way to handle complex spatial data from drone surveys, CAD designs and 3D project models across construction sites. With FME Form, they built no-code workflows to clean, convert, integrate, and validate dozens of data formats – cutting analysis time from 5 hours to just 30 minutes.
Join us, our partner Globema, and customer AI Clearing to see how they:
-Automate processing of 2D, 3D, drone, spatial, and non-spatial data
-Analyze construction progress 10x faster and with fewer errors
-Handle diverse formats like DWG, KML, SHP, and PDF with ease
-Scale their workflows for international projects in solar, roads, and pipelines
If you work with complex data, join us to learn how to optimize your own processes and transform your results with FME.
Mastering AI Workflows with FME - Peak of Data & AI 2025Safe Software
Harness the full potential of AI with FME: From creating high-quality training data to optimizing models and utilizing results, FME supports every step of your AI workflow. Seamlessly integrate a wide range of models, including those for data enhancement, forecasting, image and object recognition, and large language models. Customize AI models to meet your exact needs with FME’s powerful tools for training, optimization, and seamless integration
Providing an OGC API Processes REST Interface for FME FlowSafe Software
This presentation will showcase an adapter for FME Flow that provides REST endpoints for FME Workspaces following the OGC API Processes specification. The implementation delivers robust, user-friendly API endpoints, including standardized methods for parameter provision. Additionally, it enhances security and user management by supporting OAuth2 authentication. Join us to discover how these advancements can elevate your enterprise integration workflows and ensure seamless, secure interactions with FME Flow.
Your startup on AWS - How to architect and maintain a Lean and Mean accountangelo60207
Prevent infrastructure costs from becoming a significant line item on your startup’s budget! Serial entrepreneur and software architect Angelo Mandato will share his experience with AWS Activate (startup credits from AWS) and knowledge on how to architect a lean and mean AWS account ideal for budget minded and bootstrapped startups. In this session you will learn how to manage a production ready AWS account capable of scaling as your startup grows for less than $100/month before credits. We will discuss AWS Budgets, Cost Explorer, architect priorities, and the importance of having flexible, optimized Infrastructure as Code. We will wrap everything up discussing opportunities where to save with AWS services such as S3, EC2, Load Balancers, Lambda Functions, RDS, and many others.
This OrionX's 14th semi-annual report on the state of the cryptocurrency mining market. The report focuses on Proof-of-Work cryptocurrencies since those use substantial supercomputer power to mint new coins and encode transactions on their blockchains. Only two make the cut this time, Bitcoin with $18 billion of annual economic value produced and Dogecoin with $1 billion. Bitcoin has now reached the Zettascale with typical hash rates of 0.9 Zettahashes per second. Bitcoin is powered by the world's largest decentralized supercomputer in a continuous winner take all lottery incentive network.
Domino IQ – Was Sie erwartet, erste Schritte und Anwendungsfällepanagenda
Webinar Recording: https://www.panagenda.com/webinars/domino-iq-was-sie-erwartet-erste-schritte-und-anwendungsfalle/
HCL Domino iQ Server – Vom Ideenportal zur implementierten Funktion. Entdecken Sie, was es ist, was es nicht ist, und erkunden Sie die Chancen und Herausforderungen, die es bietet.
Wichtige Erkenntnisse
- Was sind Large Language Models (LLMs) und wie stehen sie im Zusammenhang mit Domino iQ
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2. PostgreSQL
Architecture,
Installation &
Configuration
Part-1
• Postgres Architecture
• Process and Memory Architecture
• Postgres Server Process
• Backend Processes &Background Processes
• Buffer Manager Structure
• Write Ahead Logging
• PostgreSQL Installation
• Setting Environment Variables
3. Architecture of PostgreSQL
• The physical structure of
PostgreSQL is very simple, it
consists of the following
components:
Shared Memory
Background processes
Data directory structure /
Data files
4. Data Files / Data Directory Structure
• PostgreSQL consist of multiple
databases this is called a database
cluster. When we initialize
PostgreSQL database template0,
template1 and Postgres databases
are created.
• Template0 and template1 are
template databases for new
database creation of user it contains
the system catalog tables.
• The user database will be created
by cloning the template1 database.
5. Process Architecture
• PostgreSQL is a client/server type relational database
management system with the multi-process architecture and
runs on a single host.
• A collection of multiple processes cooperatively managing
one database cluster is usually referred to as a 'PostgreSQL
server', and it contains the following types of processes:
• A postgres server process is a parent of all processes
related to a database cluster management.
• Each backend process handles all queries and statements
issued by a connected client.
• Various background processes perform processes of each
feature (e.g., VACUUM and CHECKPOINT processes) for
database management.
• In the replication associated processes, they perform the
streaming replication.
• In the background worker process supported from
version 9.3
6. Postgres Server Process
• a postgres server process is a parent of all in a PostgreSQL server. In the earlier versions, it
was called ‘postmaster’.
• By executing the pg_ctl utility with start option, a postgres server process starts up. Then,
it allocates a shared memory area in memory, starts various background processes, starts
replication associated processes and background worker processes if necessary, and waits
for connection requests from clients. Whenever receiving a connection request from a
client, it starts a backend process. (And then, the started backend process handles all
queries issued by the connected client.)
• A postgres server process listens to one network port, the default port is 5432. Although
more than one PostgreSQL server can be run on the same host, each server should be set
to listen to different port number in each other, e.g., 5432, 5433, etc.
7. Backend Processes
• A backend process, which is also called postgres, is started by the postgres server process and handles all queries issued
by one connected client. It communicates with the client by a single TCP connection, and terminates when the client
gets disconnected.
• As it is allowed to operate only one database, you have to specify a database you want to use explicitly when connecting
to a PostgreSQL server.
• PostgreSQL allows multiple clients to connect simultaneously; the configuration parameter max_connections controls
the maximum number of the clients (default is 100).
• The maximum number of backend processes is set by the max_connections parameter, and the default value is 100.
• The backend process performs the query request of the user process and then transmits the result. Some memory
structures are required for query execution, which is called local memory. The main parameters associated with local
memory are:
• work_mem Space used for sorting, bitmap operations, hash joins, and merge joins. The default setting is 4 MB.
• Maintenance_work_mem Space used for Vacuum and CREATE INDEX . The default setting is 64 MB.
• Temp_buffers Space used for temporary tables. The default setting is 8 MB.
8. Background Processes
process description
background writer • In this process, dirty pages on the shared buffer pool are written to a persistent storage (e.g., HDD, SSD) on a regular basis gradually.
• In other word this process writes and flushes periodically the WAL data on the WAL buffer to persistent storage.
checkpointer • The actual work of this process is when a checkpoint occurs it will write dirty buffer into a file.
• Checkpointer will write all dirty pages from memory to disk and clean shared buffers area. If PostgreSQL database is crashed, we can
measure data loss between last checkpoint time and PostgreSQL stopped time. The checkpoint command forces an immediate checkpoint
when the command is executed manually. Only database superuser can call checkpoint.
The checkpoint will occur in the following scenarios:
• The pages are dirty.
• Starting and restarting the DB server (pg_ctl STOP | RESTART).
• Issue of the commit.
• Starting the database backup (pg_start_backup).
• Stopping the database backup (pg_stop_backup).
• Creation of the database.
autovacuum launcher • The autovacuum-worker processes are invoked for vacuum process periodically. (More precisely, it requests to create the autovacuum
workers to the postgres server.)
• When autovacuum is enabled, this process has the responsibility of the autovacuum daemon to carry vacuum operations on bloated tables.
This process relies on the stats collector process for perfect table analysis.
WAL writer This process writes and flushes periodically the WAL data on the WAL buffer to persistent storage.
statistics collector In this process, statistics information such as for pg_stat_activity and for pg_stat_database, etc. is collected.
Logging Collector(logger) • This process also called a logger. It will write a WAL buffer to WAL file.
9. Background Processes
process description
Memory for Locks /
Lock Space
• In this process, dirty pages on the shared buffer pool are written to a persistent storage (e.g., HDD, SSD) on a regular basis gradually.
• In other word this process writes and flushes periodically the WAL data on the WAL buffer to persistent storage.
checkpointer • The actual work of this process is when a checkpoint occurs it will write dirty buffer into a file.
• Checkpointer will write all dirty pages from memory to disk and clean shared buffers area. If PostgreSQL database is crashed, we can
measure data loss between last checkpoint time and PostgreSQL stopped time. The checkpoint command forces an immediate checkpoint
when the command is executed manually. Only database superuser can call checkpoint.
The checkpoint will occur in the following scenarios:
• The pages are dirty.
• Starting and restarting the DB server (pg_ctl STOP | RESTART).
• Issue of the commit.
• Starting the database backup (pg_start_backup).
• Stopping the database backup (pg_stop_backup).
• Creation of the database.
autovacuum launcher • The autovacuum-worker processes are invoked for vacuum process periodically. (More precisely, it requests to create the autovacuum
workers to the postgres server.)
• When autovacuum is enabled, this process has the responsibility of the autovacuum daemon to carry vacuum operations on bloated tables.
This process relies on the stats collector process for perfect table analysis.
WAL writer This process writes and flushes periodically the WAL data on the WAL buffer to persistent storage.
statistics collector In this process, statistics information such as for pg_stat_activity and for pg_stat_database, etc. is collected.
10. Memory Architecture
• Memory architecture in
PostgreSQL can be classified into
two broad categories:
1. Local memory area – allocated
by each backend process for
its own use.
2. Shared memory area – used
by all processes of a
PostgreSQL server.
11. Local memory area
work_mem • Executor uses this area for sorting tuples by
ORDER BY and DISTINCT operations, and for
joining tables by merge-join and hash-join
operations.
• The default value of work memory in 9.3 and
the older version is 1 megabyte (1 MB) from
9.4 and later default value of work memory
is 4 megabytes ( default size 4 MB).
maintenance_
work_mem
• We need to specify the maximum amount of
memory for database maintenance
operations such as VACUUM, ANALYZE,
ALTER TABLE, CREATE INDEX, and ADD
FOREIGN KEY, etc.
• The default value of maintenance work
memory in 9.3 and the older version is 16
megabytes (16 MB) from 9.4 and later
default value of maintenance work memory
is 64 megabytes ( Default Size 64 MB).
• It is safe to set maintenance work memory is
large as compared to work memory. Larger
settings will improve the performance of
maintenance (VACUUM, ANALYZE, ALTER
TABLE, CREATE INDEX, and ADD FOREIGN
KEY, etc.) operations.
temp_buffers Executor uses this area for storing temporary
Shared memory area
shared
buffer pool
• PostgreSQL loads pages within tables and indexes from a
persistent storage to here and operates them directly.
• We need to set some amount of memory to a database
server for uses of shared buffers. The default value of
shared buffers in 9.2 and the older version is 32 megabytes
(32 MB) from 9.3 and the later default value of shared
buffers is 128 megabytes ( Default size 128 MB).
• If we have a dedicated server for PostgreSQL, reasonable
starting to set shared buffers value is 25% of total memory.
The purpose of shared buffers is to minimize server DISK
IO.
WAL buffer To ensure that no data has been lost by server failures,
PostgreSQL supports the WAL mechanism. WAL data (also
referred to as XLOG records) are transaction log in PostgreSQL;
and WAL buffer is a buffering area of the WAL data before
writing to a persistent storage.
WAL buffers temporarily store changes in the database, which
changes in the WAL buffers are written to the WAL file at a
predetermined time. At the time of backup and recovery, WAL
buffers and WAL files are very important to recover the data at
some peak of time.
The minimum value of shared buffers is 32 KB. If we set this
parameter as wal_buffers = -1 it will set based on
shared_buffers.
commit log • Commit Log(CLOG) keeps the states of all transactions
MEMORY ARCHITECTURE
12. Installing PostgreSQL on Linux/Unix
Follow the given steps to install PostgreSQL on your Linux machine.
Make sure you are logged in as root before you proceed for the
installation.
Pick the version number of PostgreSQL you want and, as exactly as
possible, the platform you want from EnterpriseDB
I downloaded postgresql-9.2.4-1-linux-x64.run for my 64 bit CentOS-6
machine. Now, let us execute it as follows −
[root@host]# chmod +x postgresql-9.2.4-1-linux-x64.run
[root@host]# ./postgresql-9.2.4-1-linux-x64.run
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Welcome to the PostgreSQL Setup Wizard.
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Please specify the directory where PostgreSQL will be installed.
Installation Directory [/opt/PostgreSQL/9.2]:
Once you launch the installer, it asks you a few basic questions like
location of the installation, password of the user who will use database,
port number, etc. So keep all of them at their default values except
password, which you can provide password as per your choice. It will
install PostgreSQL at your Linux machine and will display the following
message −
Please wait while Setup installs PostgreSQL on your computer.
Installing
0% ______________ 50% ______________ 100%
#########################################
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
Setup has finished installing PostgreSQL on your computer.
Follow the following post-installation steps to create your
database −
[root@host]# su - postgres
Password:
bash-4.1$ createdb testdb
bash-4.1$ psql testdb
psql (8.4.13, server 9.2.4)
test=#
You can start/restart postgres server in case it is not running using
the following command −
[root@host]# service postgresql restart
Stopping postgresql service: [ OK ]
Starting postgresql service: [ OK ]
If your installation was correct, you will have PotsgreSQL prompt
test=# as shown above.
13. Installing PostgreSQL on Windows
• Follow the given steps to install
PostgreSQL on your Windows machine.
Make sure you have turned Third Party
Antivirus off while installing.
• Pick the version number of PostgreSQL
you want and, as exactly as possible, the
platform you want from EnterpriseDB
• I downloaded postgresql-9.2.4-1-
windows.exe for my Windows PC
running in 32bit mode, so let us
run postgresql-9.2.4-1-windows.exe as
administrator to install PostgreSQL.
Select the location where you want to
install it. By default, it is installed within
Program Files folder.
14. PostgreSQL mostly tuned parameters
Listen_address
No doubt, you need to change it to let PostgreSQL know what IP address(es) to
listen on. If your postgres is not just used for localhost, add or change it
accordingly. Also, you need to setup access rules in pg_hba.conf.
listen_addresses = 'localhost,<dbserver>'
default value: "localhost"
Max_connections
max_connections = 2000
default: max_connections = 100 This parameter really depends on your application, I set it
to 2000 for most of connections are short lifetime SQL, and connection are reused
Buffer size
shared_buffers = 3GB
effective_cache_size = 16GB
Default:
shared_buffers = 32MB
effective_cache_size = 128MB
Work memory
work_mem = 32MB
maintenance_work_mem = 256MB
Default:
work_mem = 1MB and maintenance_work_mem = 16MB work_mem is for each
connection, while maintenance_work_mem is for maintenance tasks for example, vacuum,
create, index etc.. Set work_mem big is good for sorting types of query, but not for small
query. This has to be considered with max_connections
Check_segments
checkpoint_segments = 32
default:
checkpoint_segments=3 Maximum number of log file segments between
automatic WAL checkpoints (each segment is normally 16 megabytes)
Wal_level
wal_level = archiv
default:
wal_level = minimal wal_level determines how much information is written to the WAL. The
default value is minimal, which writes only the information needed to recover from a crash
or immediate shutdown. archive adds logging required for WAL archiving
ARCHIVE
Not mandatery for all cases. Here is my setting
archive_mode = on
archive_command = '/bin/cp -p %p /home/backups/archivelogs/%f
</dev/null'
AUTOVACUUM
autovacuum is a quite hot topic in Postgres, for most of time, global autovacuum doesn't
work well,
track_counts = on
autovacuum = on
autovacuum_max_workers
autovacuum_vacuum_threshold = 500
15. PostgreSQL table access statistics, index io statistics
#1 table access statistics
#select schemaname,relname,seq_scan,idx_scan,cast(idx_scan as numeric) /
(idx_scan + seq_scan)
as idx_scan_pct
from pg_stat_user_tables where (idx_scan +seq_scan) >0 order by idx_scan_pct;
Higher pct means more likely your postgreSQL is using index scan, which is good.
#2 table io statistics
#select relname,cast(heap_blks_hit as numeric) /(heap_blks_hit +heap_blks_read)
as hit_pct,heap_blks_hit,heap_blks_read from pg_statio_user_tables
where (heap_blks_hit + heap_blks_read) >0 order by hit_pct; Higher hit_pct means
more likely the data required is cached.
#3 index access statistics
this shows all of the disk i/o for every index on each table
#select relname,cast(idx_blks_hit as numeric) /(idx_blks_hit + idx_blks_read )
as hit_pct,idx_blks_hit,idx_blks_read from pg_statio_user_tables
where (idx_blks_hit +idx_blks_read) >0 order by hit_pct;
#4 index io statistics
#select indexrelname,cast(idx_blks_hit as numeric) /( idx_blks_hit + idx_blks_read)
as hit_pct,idx_blks_hit,idx_blks_read from pg_statio_user_indexes
where (idx_blks_hit +idx_blks_read)>0 order by hit_pct ;
#5 Less used indexes(from top to bottom)
#select
schemaname,relname,indexrelname,idx_scan,pg_size_pretty(pg_relation_size(i.in
dexrelid))
as index_size from pg_stat_user_indexes i join pg_index using (indexrelid)
where indisunique is false order by idx_scan,relname;
Note: The main thing that the counts in pg_stat_user_indexes are useful for is to
determining which indexes are actually being used by your application. Since
indexes add overhead to the system, but drop them with care.
To show current server configuration setting.
SHOW ALL;
SELECT name, setting, unit, context FROM pg_settings;
16. Write-Ahead Logging (WAL)- Parameter
Common Settings Checkpoints Archiving
#wal_level = minimal # minimal, archive, or hot_standby #
(change requires restart)
#fsync = on # turns forced synchronization on or off
#synchronous_commit = on # synchronization level; on, off, or local
#wal_sync_method = fsync # the default is the first option
#full_page_writes = on # recover from partial page writes
#wal_buffers = -1 # min 32kB, -1 sets based on shared_buffers
# (change requires restart)
#wal_writer_delay = 200ms # 1-10000 milliseconds
#commit_delay = 0 # range 0-100000, in microseconds
#commit_siblings = 5 # range 1-1000
#checkpoint_segments = 3 # in logfile segments, min 1, 16MB
each#archive_mode = off # allows archiving to be done #
(change requires restart)
#archive_command = '' # command to use to archive a logfile
segment
#archive_timeout = 0 # force a logfile segment switch after this #
number of seconds; 0 disables
#checkpoint_timeout = 5min # range 30s-1h
#checkpoint_completion_target = 0.5 # checkpoint target duration, 0.0
- 1.0
#checkpoint_warning = 30s # 0 disables
#archive_mode = off # allows archiving to be done # (change
requires restart)
#archive_command = '' # command to use to archive a logfile
segment
#archive_timeout = 0 # force a logfile segment switch after this #
number of seconds; 0 disables
Configuring the PostgreSQL Archive Log Directory
• Archive log files are stored in the Archive Log directory. Ensure to follow the below checkpoints before running the PostgreSQL File System backup.
• Specify the Archive log directory path in the postgresql.conf file prior to performing the PostgreSQL FS backup. Make sure that this path does not point to pg_log or log directories and pg_xlog or pg_wal directories.
archive_command = 'cp %p /opt/wal/%f' #UNIX
archive_command = 'copy "%p" "D:PostgreSQLwal%f"' #Windows
• The following configuration to turn on the archive_mode. This feature is not supported for PostgreSQL 8.2 and earlier versions.
archive_mode = on
• For PostgreSQL 9.x.x version, use the following configuration.
Set wal_level = archive instead of default wal_level = minimal
• From PostgreSQL 10.x.x version onwards, use the following configuration.
Set wal_level = replica
• Verify that the archive command provided in the postgresql.conf file is correct. You can test this by running the following commands and verifying that they successfully complete.
Select pg_start_backup(‘Testing’);
Select pg_stop_backup();
17. Write-Ahead Logging (WAL)- Parameter
•WAL Archive log In PostgreSQL database system, the actual database 'writes' to an addition file called write-ahead log (WAL) to disk.
•It contains a record of writes that made in the database system. In the case of Crash, database can be repaired/recovered from these
records.
•Normally, the write-ahead log logs at regular intervals (called Checkpoints) matched against the database and then deleted because it no
longer is required. You can also use the WAL as a backup because, there is a record of all writes made to the database.
WAL Archiving Concept :
In pg_xlog write ahead logs are stored. It is the log file, where all the logs are stored of committed and uncommitted transaction. It
contains max 6 logs, and last one overwrites. If archiver is on, it moves there.
•The write-ahead log is composed of each 16 MB large, which are called segments.
•The WALs reside under pg_xlog directory and it is the subdirectory of 'data directory'. The filenames will have numerical(0-9) and
character(a-z) named in ascending order by PostgreSQL Instance. To perform a backup on the basis of WAL, one needs a basic backup that
is, a complete backup of the data directory, and the WAL Segments between the base backup and the current date.
•PostgreSQL managing WAL files by removing or adding according to setting with wal_keep_segments, max_wal_size and min_wal_size.
20. Benefits of WAL
The first obvious benefit of using WAL is a significantly reduced number of disk writes, since only the log file needs to be
flushed to disk at the time of transaction commit; in multiuser environments, commits of many transactions may be
accomplished with a single fsync() of the log file. Furthermore, the log file is written sequentially, and so the cost of
syncing the log is much less than the cost of flushing the data pages.
The next benefit is consistency of the data pages. The truth is that, before WAL, PostgreSQL was never able to guarantee
consistency in the case of a crash. Before WAL, any crash during writing could result in:
1. index rows pointing to nonexistent table rows
2. index rows lost in split operations
3. totally corrupted table or index page content, because of partially written data pages
Problems with indexes (problems 1 and 2) could possibly have been fixed by additional fsync() calls, but it is not obvious
how to handle the last case without WAL; WAL saves the entire data page content in the log if that is required to ensure
page consistency for after-crash recovery.
WAL is significantly faster in most scenarios.
WAL provides more concurrency as readers do not block writers and a writer does not block readers. Reading and
writing can proceed concurrently.
Disk I/O operations tends to be more sequential using WAL.
WAL uses many fewer fsync() operations and is thus less vulnerable to problems on systems where the fsync() system
call is broken.
21. Postgres WAL Config
The postgres.conf file is set as follows for WAL archiving.
#------------------------------------------------------------------------------
# WRITE AHEAD LOG
#------------------------------------------------------------------------------
# - Settings -
#wal_level = minimal # minimal, archive, or hot_standby
wal_level = archive
# - Archiving -
archive_mode = on
#archive_mode = off # allows archiving to be done
# (change requires restart)
archive_command = 'cp %p /pgsql-backup/archive/postgres1/%f'
# command to use to archive a logfile segment
# archive_command = ''
# command to use to archive a logfile segment
# placeholders: %p = path of file to archive
# %f = file name only
# e.g. 'test ! -f /mnt/server/archivedir/%f && cp %p /mnt/server/archivedir/%f'
• #archive_timeout = 0 # force a logfile segment switch after this
• # number of seconds; 0 disables
22. How do I read a Wal file in PostgreSQL?
• First get the source for the version of Postgres that you wish to view
WAL data for. ./configure and make this, but no need to install.
• Then copy the xlogdump folder to the contrib folder (a git clone in
that folder works fine)
• Run make for xlogdump - it should find the parent postgres structure
and build the binary.