#234: Visualizing and Tuning Postgres's 'Autovacuum'

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Postgres Weekly Issue 234 — November 29, 2017

Visualizing and Tuning Postgres's 'Autovacuum' A look at an approach to autovacuum tuning based on sampling statistics over time, visualizing them, and then making tuning decisions based on data. Lukas Fittl Transaction Isolation Levels in Postgres A look at the four isolation levels for transactions in the SQL standard and how they apply to Postgres. Igor Šarčević A Single Config Change Improved Slow Query Performance by 50x A look at how a team worked around Postgres picking a particularly inefficient approach to answering a query. Pavan Patibandla Trust Your PostgreSQL Database with World Renowned Experts at 2ndQuadrant Remote DBA from 2ndQuadrant experts eliminates the hassle of monitoring and managing your database, ensuring it’s always performing its best & preempting issues that could cause downtime. Remote monitoring allows us to act fast, saving you money & reducing the impact of failure. 2ndQuadrant PostgreSQL Services    #sponsored  How Citus Executes Distributed Transactions on Postgres In the new Citus 7.1, an extension for horizontally scaling Postgres, support for distributed transactions has been added, and this is a look at how they pulled it off. citusdata   #news  How We Migrated from Heroku PostgreSQL to AWS RDS A practical look at how a customer survey company moved their main production database from Heroku to Amazon Web Services. Wootric repmgr 4.0 Released: Replication Management for Postgres A complete rewrite of the existing codebase that adds full support for Postgres 10 and makes repmgr a fully-fledged extension. 2ndQuadrant   #tools  Scaling PG with Read Replicas & Using WAL to Counter Stale Reads Scaling out operation with read replicas and avoiding the downside of stale reads by observing replication progress. Brandur Leach Securing Database Traffic with PgBouncer and Amazon RDS Andrew Kane Get Unlimited Access to Postgres Online Training Content for a Year EDB Postgres Training e-Subscriptions simplify how you purchase and consume training. Get unlimited access. EnterpriseDB    #sponsored  PostgreSQL Configuration for Humans Slides covering the perf advantages of appropriately tuning your postgresql.conf file. Álvaro Hernandez Tortosa AgensGraph: A Transactional Graph DB Based on Postgres bitnine   #code  Postgres Weekly is curated by Craig Kerstiens Read this issue on the Web See our archives Change your email address Stop getting this newsletter Published by Cooperpress Fairfield Enterprise Centre, Lincoln Way, Louth, LN11 0LS, UK