How to Scale Postgres - Automation, Tuning & Sharding

Talk at Postgres Vision 2020

1. @LukasFittl How to Scale Postgres: Automation, Tuning & Sharding
2. @LukasFittl
3. Scaling Postgres
4. Scaling Postgres
5. Automation Handling 100s of database servers
6. Consistency is key
7. Infrastructure as Code
8. Postgres Infrastructure as Code
9. Demo: Managing Configuration using Terraform
10. Cloud PaaS Synchronized Configuration Terraform
11. Cloud PaaS Synchronized Configuration Terraform Access Control (Roles, pg_hba.conf) Terraform
12. Cloud PaaS Synchronized Configuration Terraform Parameter Groups Access Control (Roles, pg_hba.conf) Roles: Terraform HBA: Built-in Automatic Failover (for HA & Planned Updates) Built-in
13. Cloud PaaS Synchronized Configuration Terraform Parameter Groups Access Control (Roles, pg_hba.conf) Roles: Terraform HBA: Built-in Automatic Failover (for HA & Planned Updates) Built-in Read Replicas Built-in
14. Cloud PaaS Synchronized Configuration Terraform Parameter Groups Access Control (Roles, pg_hba.conf) Roles: Terraform HBA: Built-in Automatic Failover (for HA & Planned Updates) Built-in Read Replicas Built-in Backups Built-in
15. Cloud PaaS Synchronized Configuration Terraform Parameter Groups Access Control (Roles, pg_hba.conf) Roles: Terraform HBA: Built-in Automatic Failover (for HA & Planned Updates) Built-in Read Replicas Built-in Backups Built-in Connection Pooling Manual Setup
16. Cloud PaaS Self-Managed VM Synchronized Configuration Terraform Parameter Groups ? Access Control (Roles, pg_hba.conf) Roles: Terraform HBA: Built-in ? Automatic Failover (for HA & Planned Updates) Built-in ? Read Replicas Built-in ? Backups Built-in ? Connection Pooling Manual Setup ?
17. Cloud PaaS Self-Managed VM Synchronized Configuration Terraform Parameter Groups ? Access Control (Roles, pg_hba.conf) Roles: Terraform HBA: Built-in ? Automatic Failover (for HA & Planned Updates) Built-in pg_auto_failover Read Replicas Built-in ? Backups Built-in ? Connection Pooling Manual Setup ?
18. pg_auto_failover: Simple, automated failover
19. pg_auto_failover
20. Demo: Postgres HA using pg_auto_failover
21. Tuning Making The Most Of Your Database Server
22. work_mem tuning
23. Out Of Memory vs Operations Spill To Disk
24. Temporary Files Written pg_stat_statements.temp_blks_written pg_stat_database.temp_bytes
25. Temporary Files Written (Per Query) log_temp_files = 0 Jan 20 09:18:58pm PST 28847 LOG: temporary file: path "base/pgsql_ pgsql_tmp28847.9", size 50658332 Jan 20 09:18:58pm PST 28847 STATEMENT: WITH servers AS ( SELECT …
26. When Sorts Spill To Disk, Increase work_mem However, be aware of OOMs!
27. When you get a lot of Out of Memory Errors Reduce work_mem!
28. VACUUM
29. autovacuum => SELECT pid, query FROM pg_stat_activity WHERE query LIKE 'autovacuum: %'; 10469 | autovacuum: VACUUM ANALYZE public.schema_columns 12848 | autovacuum: VACUUM public.replication_follower_stats 28626 | autovacuum: VACUUM public.schema_index_stats | (to prevent wraparound) (3 rows) pg_stat_activity
30. autovacuum pg_stat_progress_vacuum relid: OID of the table phase: current VACUUM phase heap_blks_total: Heap Blocks Total heap_blks_scanned: Heap Blocks Scanned heap_blks_vacuumed: Heap Blocks Vacuumed …
31. Reduce autovacuum_vacuum_cost_delay To Increase VACUUM Speed 80 MB/s 8 MB/s (20ms) (2ms) PG 12+ Older PG Default OS / Disk Reads
32. Use Table Partitioning For Append-Only + Delete Workloads (e.g. Timeseries)
33. Checkpoints
34. Data Directory WAL WAL WAL Buffer Cache Checkpointer WAL Checkpoints Are Important For I/O Tuning
35. 16688 LOG: checkpoint starting: xlog xlog = WAL exceeded max_wal_size, checkpoint has to happen quickly time = checkpoint_timeout reached, checkpoint impact spread over time
36. Checkpoint Statistics pg_stat_bgwriter checkpoints_timed: # of scheduled checkpoints checkpoints_req: # of requested checkpoints 1. Time Between Checkpoints 2. % of Timed Checkpoints
37. Increase max_wal_size / Reduce checkpoint_timeout To Have More Timed Checkpoints (but be careful with recovery times)
38. Tune checkpoint_completion_target To Control I/O Impact of Timed Checkpoints (Often 0.9 is a good value, but depends on I/O Subsystem & Workload)
39. Demo: Postgres 13 WAL Monitoring
40. Sharding Scaling Beyond The Limits of a Single Server
41. Citus: Extension for Sharding Postgres
42. Select from table Coordinator Table metadata Select from table_1001 Select from table_1003 Select from table_1002 Select from table_1004 Data node N Data node 2 Data node 1 Table_1001 Table_1003 Table_1002 Table_1004 Each node PostgreSQL with Citus installed 1 shard = 1 PostgreSQL table Sharding data across multiple nodes
43. Demo: Hyperscale (Citus) on Kubernetes with Azure Arc
44. Thank you! lukas@fittl.com @LukasFittl