A detailed understanding of MVCC and Autovacuum Internals in PostgreSQL.

MVCC and Autovacuum Internals
Schedule

Presented by:

Avinash Vallarapu

HexaCluster

  • Avinash Vallarapu (Avi) is the CEO and Founder of HexaCluster, a company specialized in Database Migrations, PostgreSQL Consulting, Application Migrations and Modernizations, and AI/ML Services. Before creating HexaCluster, Avi was the CEO and Co-founder of MigOps, specialized in database migrations to PostgreSQL. He created the PostgreSQL practice at Percona as a Global Services Lead and Product Owner, and worked as a Database Architect at OpenSCG and Dell. With a vast experience in technologies like Oracle, PostgreSQL, MySQL and MongoDB for the last 2 decades, Avi had co-authored multiple books on PostgreSQL : Beginning PostgreSQL on Cloud and PostgreSQL 13 Cookbook.

  • He spoke at various PostgreSQL Conferences in the past including -

    • PGCONF India
    • PGCON Ottawa
    • Percona Live Frankfurt
    • Postgres Conference New York
    • Percona Live Texas
    • Postgres Open Florida
    • Postgres Conference Silicon Valley
    • Percona Live
    • GITEX Global
    • and some more conferences.

  • His areas of expertise are PostgreSQL Migrations, Training and Consulting.

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  • PostgreSQL implements MVCC in a slightly different way when compared to databases like Oracle, MySQL and others. In PostgreSQL, there is a different method for managing UNDO that requires a cleanup concept called vacuum. Over a period of time, PostgreSQL implemented autovacuum that has been enhanced with every release. It is now important for PostgreSQL admins/DevOPS to understand the internals of autovacuum and the MVCC implementation and avoid how to avoid a transaction wraparound in PostgreSQL.

  • Following topics will be discussed during this talk.

    • 1. MVCC in PostgreSQL.
    • 2. Vacuum and Autovacuum Internals.
    • 3. Parameters to manage and tune autovacuum.
    • 4. Problems in a busy OLTP database with untuned autovacuum settings and the best way of doing it.

Date:
Duration:
50 min
Room:
Conference:
Postgres Conference 2020
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Track:
Ops and Administration
Difficulty:
Easy