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Practical Memory Tuning for PostgreSQLPostgreSQL Conference Europe 20242024-10-22
Poor memory settings cause dramatic slowdowns: a misconfigured server shows an 11x reduction in throughput when buffers and swap are wrong, and the OOM killer…
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Tuning PostgreSQL for High Write WorkloadsPostgresOpen Silicon Valley 20172017-09-06
Starts with a 9-index test table (UUID PK, many random columns) that peaks ~25k TPS then collapses; updates run ~3.7k TPS. Major causes are full-page writes…
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Breakout SessionPGConf Silicon Valley 20152015-11-17
Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL now doubles storage to 6 TB and uses gp2 which provides 3 IOPS per GB, letting larger volumes raise baseline IOPS; encryption at rest…
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