Schedule - PGConf.DE 2024
WORK_MEM the good, the bad and the ugly
Date: 2024-04-12
Time: 12:50–13:35
Room: Ballsaal 3
Level: Intermediate
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Postgres WORK_MEM is an important parameter to control the private memory allocated to the worker process but is not that often discussed in-depth at pgconf / pgday events.
Over the last decade, I have worked on migrations of literally 1000s database clusters (in data centres around the world) from Oracle to Postgres. I'm now working exclusively with Postgres on some exceptionally high workloads.
I have found tuning WORK_MEM generally quite intuitive, but there are some edge cases, and occasionally, things can get very ugly (at least in the DBaaS world).
I will demo the normal tuning processes I use and then go onto some interesting edge cases I have seen.
Finally, I want to cover some defensive programming best practices to avoid ugly edge cases.
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