Lightning-Talk slides in pgDay @ LinuxWorld 2008/SanFrancisco

1. pgDay @ LW/SF2008
PostgreSQL - What’s Next?
Satoshi Nagayasu
snaga@snaga.org

2. Who am I?
• Current
– Datacenter Business Development (NTT DATA Corp. Ltd.)
• Past
– OpenSource Database Engineer (NTT DATA Corp. Ltd.)
– Public Relations Director (Japan PostgreSQL Users Group)
– Database Developer (Fujitsu)
– Web Programmer (Crayfish Co. Ltd.)
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3. PostgreSQL’s past topics
• Performance
– No problem. Excellent.
• Scalability (Scaling up & Scaling out)
– PostgreSQL works well on 16-way SMP.
– We have some scaling-out replication solutions.
– A built-in replication is coming. (Thanks hackers!)
• Availability
– We have a warm-standby feature.
– Also we have some replication solutions.
• Vacuum
– We have a “HOT” feature.
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4. What’s next?
What’s next?
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5. PostgreSQL’s next topic is…
Monitoring
&
Administration
(just my opinion)
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6. “Cloud” Generation Computing
• Lots of servers
– Multi-core processors
– Commodity (cheaper) hardware
• Lots of software
– We love OSS!
• … needs lots of admins?
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7. “Cloud” Generation Administration
• “Cloud” is a datacenter-centric architecture.
• In “Cloud” generation, we have to do many
admin tasks on many virtual/physical servers
and many software, with fewer admins.
• So “Monitoring and Administration” is the key
to the next generation infrastructure.
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8. Monitoring and Administration requirements
• We need to monitor and check…
– Processor and memory usage
– Database size and I/O traffics
– Cache hit ratio
– Transactions and backend activity
– Slow queries
– etc, etc, …
I want to do them easily on many servers and
software.
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9. Examples
Oracle Enterprise Manager
MySQL Enterprise Monitor
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10. My personal projects
About my personal projects…
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11. pgconsole
• Prototype of workload monitoring tool
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12. pgperf/StatsKit
• pgperf/StatsKit consists of several SQL
scripts and shell scripts to report PG stats.
– Inspired by Oracle StatsPack ☺
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13. Project Goal (Future plan)
• Performance monitoring as a web service
– supports DBA’s management tasks.
Upload
Client database stats
Performance analysis
Web service
Internet
Internet
Client
(Historical data
repository)
View performance
stats with chart
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14. Thanks
Thanks
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