My Experience with Embedding PostgresSQL
summary
VMware embeds PostgreSQL across roughly 30 products (about 20 requiring databases) to eliminate external license costs and ships an embedded DB-as-a-service that includes RPM packaging, a service configurator, auto-tuner, a watchdog utility, modified pg_top and a support‑package builder. Real results: dramatic license savings, easier deploys (vCenter Appliance first), but version stickiness, OpenSSL/client library mismatches, occasional crashes from aggressive tuning, and upgrades that require pg_dump/restore or scripted pg_upgrade. Replication is left to application-level or VM-level DR.
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- 0:00Start
- 0:12About me
- 1:22The Initial Problem
- 2:47Proposal: PostgreSQL?
- 4:08Initial Feedback
- 6:52Plan: Embedded Default DB
- 8:30Ground Work: Migration
- 11:58Plan: Backup & Recovery
- 13:24Initial Embedded DB Deploymen
- 14:53Early Results
- 20:15Installation
- 22:29Performance related tools
- 23:27Related Problems: Crashes
- 25:39Availability
- 27:19Next Challenge: Supportability
- 28:18Usability
- 30:13Pluggable UI
- 33:35Virtual Appliances
- 35:18Upgrades
- 37:51Multi-Platform
- 38:20PostgreSQL Service on Windows!
- 39:32In Closing
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