Re: PostGreSQL Replication and question on maintenance

From: Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Soto Cuevas Manuel Alejandro <MCSoto(at)entel(dot)cl>
Cc: github kran <githubkran(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-general <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>, pgsql-sql Owner <pgsql-sql-owner(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>, postgres list <pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Michael Lewis <mlewis(at)entrata(dot)com>
Subject: Re: PostGreSQL Replication and question on maintenance
Date: 2019-11-20 12:15:23
Message-ID: CAFj8pRABrsJeWDVJkOLvwTzxA6urdOo9Hteva7JUZf2TsV7Spg@mail.gmail.com
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Hi

st 20. 11. 2019 v 13:12 odesílatel Soto Cuevas Manuel Alejandro <
MCSoto(at)entel(dot)cl> napsal:

> Taking advantage of the instance, what software do you recommend to do
> reverse engineering of postgresql?
>

please, open new thread. Your query is not related to subject.

https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Design_Tools

Regards

Pavel

> Thank you
>
> Manuel
>
> El 16-11-2019, a la(s) 10:36, github kran <githubkran(at)gmail(dot)com> escribió:
>
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> On Fri, Nov 15, 2019 at 9:10 AM github kran <githubkran(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Nov 14, 2019 at 11:42 PM Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> these numbers looks crazy high - how much memory has your server -
>>> more than 1TB?
>>>
>>
>> The cluster got 244 GB of RAM and storage capacity it has is 64 TB.
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> pá 15. 11. 2019 v 6:26 odesílatel github kran <githubkran(at)gmail(dot)com>
>>> napsal:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Hello postGreSQL Community ,
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Hope everyone is doing great !!.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> *Background*
>>>>>
>>>>> We use PostgreSQL Version 10.6 version and heavily use PostgreSQL for
>>>>> our day to day activities to write and read data. We have 2 clusters
>>>>> running PostgreSQL engine , one cluster
>>>>>
>>>>> keeps data up to 60 days and another cluster retains data beyond 1
>>>>> year. The data is partitioned close to a week( ~evry 5 days a partition)
>>>>> and we have around 5 partitions per month per each table and we have 2
>>>>> tables primarily so that will be 10 tables a week. So in the cluster-1 we
>>>>> have around 20 partitions and in cluster-2 we have around 160 partitions (
>>>>> data from 2018). We also want to keep the data for up to 2 years in the
>>>>> cluster-2 to serve the data needs of the customer and so far we reached
>>>>> upto 1 year of maintaining this data.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> *Current activity*
>>>>>
>>>>> We have a custom weekly migration DB script job that moves data from 1
>>>>> cluster to another cluster what it does is the below things.
>>>>>
>>>>> 1) COPY command to copy the data from cluster-1 and split that data
>>>>> into binary files
>>>>>
>>>>> 2) Writing the binary data into the cluster-2 table
>>>>>
>>>>> 3) Creating indexes after the data is copied.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> *Problem what we have right now. *
>>>>>
>>>>> When the migration activity runs(weekly) from past 2 times , we saw
>>>>> the cluster read replica instance has restarted as it fallen behind the
>>>>> master(writer instance). Everything
>>>>>
>>>>> after that worked seamlessly but we want to avoid the replica getting
>>>>> restarted. To avoid from restart we started doing smaller binary files and
>>>>> copy those files to the cluster-2
>>>>>
>>>>> instead of writing 1 big file of 450 million records. We were
>>>>> successful in the recent migration as the reader instance didn’t restart
>>>>> after we split 1 big file into multiple files to copy the data over but did
>>>>> restart after the indexes are created on the new table as it could be write
>>>>> intensive.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> *DB parameters set on migration job*
>>>>>
>>>>> work_mem set to 8 GB and maintenace_work_mem=32 GB.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Indexes per table = 3
>>>>>
>>>>> total indexes for 2 tables = 5
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> *DB size*
>>>>>
>>>>> Cluster-2 = 8.6 TB
>>>>>
>>>>> Cluster-1 = 3.6 TB
>>>>>
>>>>> Peak Table relational rows = 400 - 480 million rows
>>>>>
>>>>> Average table relational rows = 300 - 350 million rows.
>>>>>
>>>>> Per table size = 90 -95 GB , per table index size is about 45 GB
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> *Questions*
>>>>>
>>>>> 1) Can we decrease the maintenace_work_mem to 16 GB and will it slow
>>>>> down the writes to the cluster , with that the reader instance can sync the
>>>>> data slowly ?.
>>>>>
>>>>> 2) Based on the above use case what are your recommendations to keep
>>>>> the data longer up to 2 years ?
>>>>>
>>>>> 3) What other recommendations you recommend ?.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Appreciate your replies.
>>>>>
>>>>> THanks
>>>>> githubkran
>>>>>
>>>>>>
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