Re: Postgres as In-Memory Database? - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Michael Paquier
Subject Re: Postgres as In-Memory Database?
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Msg-id CAB7nPqRDzW3=ey5WDGdWdm13b5aWAt3gqjxGm3RD21DHbuKR=g@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Postgres as In-Memory Database?  (Stefan Keller <sfkeller@gmail.com>)
Responses Re: Postgres as In-Memory Database?  (Edson Richter <edsonrichter@hotmail.com>)
Re: Postgres as In-Memory Database?  (Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>)
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On Sun, Nov 17, 2013 at 8:25 PM, Stefan Keller <sfkeller@gmail.com> wrote:
> How can Postgres be used and configured as an In-Memory Database?
>
> Does anybody know of thoughts or presentations about this "NoSQL feature" -
> beyond e.g. "Perspectives on NoSQL" from Gavin Roy at PGCon 2010)?
>
> Given, say 128 GB memory or more, and (read-mostly) data that fit's into
> this, what are the hints to optimize Postgres (postgresql.conf etc.)?
In this case as you are trading system safety (system will not be
crash-safe) for performance... The following parameters would be
suited:
- Improve performance by reducing the amount of data flushed:
fsync = off
synchronous_commit=off
- Reduce the size of WALs:
full_page_writes = off
- Disable the background writer:
bgwriter_lru_maxpages = 0
Regards,
--
Michael


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