Connection pooling, Why we go for connection pooling in PostgreSQL, When your application demands for very good number of concurrent connection hits then you need to approach it, because Connection pool sits between your application and the database. Idea behind connection pool is that you have enough connections to use of all the available resources…
In my recent post on pgmemcache, there were couple of questions asked which were really interesting and made me to work on it. I should thank for it 🙂 Questions:1. Is pgmemcache application transparent ?2. Is there any synchronization between memcached and PostgreSQL Shared buffers ? Answer: pgmemcache(memcached) is not application transparent, you need to…
Preloading or Caching the table in PostgreSQL is a tough task, because PostgreSQL doesnt offer a Single big synchronize-level memory managment. All the memories are independent. Caching is possible with the third party tools like memcached. pgmemcache is a set of PostgreSQL user-defined functions(API’s) that provide an interface to memcached. pgmemcache, pre-requisites recommends to have…
Its always a challenging task when moving from one version to another version on new Server. My presentation below is to upgrade the Old version of PostgreSQL 8.3 to PostgreSQL 9.0.4 on NEW SERVER. Basically, steps are very simple for upgradation, but need to take some extra care when bouncing the new server before and…
A major milestone in PostgreSQL 9.0 is Streaming Replication(including DDL). Many of you all used configuring SR on Linux, but I would be presenting SR on Windows Platform. PostgreSQL wiki is the best guide for setting up the Streaming Replication. For setting up SR on Windows, I would recommend to follow the PostgreSQL wiki steps…
