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Re: Postgresql 9.4 and ZFS?

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On Tue, Sep 29, 2015 at 1:01 PM, Benjamin Smith <ben@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Does anybody here have any recommendations for using PostgreSQL 9.4 (latest)
with ZFS?

We've been running both on ZFS/CentOS 6 with excellent results, and are
considering putting the two together. In particular, the CoW nature (and
subsequent fragmentation/thrashing) of ZFS becomes largely irrelevant on SSDs;
the very act of wear leveling on an SSD is itself a form of intentional
thrashing that doesn't affect performance since SSDs have no meaningful seek
time. It would seem that PGCon  2013 even had a workshop on it!
https://www.pgcon.org/2013/schedule/events/612.en.html

The exact configuration we're contemplating is either (3x 400 RAIDZ1) or (4x
400 RAIDZ2) with Intel Enterprise SATA3 SSDs, with default (lz4) compression
enabled.

If this is a particularly good or bad idea, I'd like to hear it, and why?

Thanks,

BenP


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We've run postgres on ZFS for years with great success (first on OpenSolaris, now on OmniOS, and I personally run it on FreeBSD). The snapshotting feature makes upgrades on large clusters much less scary (snapshot and revert if it goes bad) and being able to bring a snapshot backup up as a clone to restore an accidentally dropped table is great. 

Others have given a lot of great advice as far as system tuning. Only other thing I can add is you definitely do want your data directory on its own pool. But I recommend putting the actual data in a folder under that pool (possibly by major version name). For example if your pool is

/data/postgres

Create a folder under that directory to actually put the data:

mkdir /data/postgres/9.4

This allows pg_upgrade's --link option to work during major upgrades since you can't have an upgrade destination on a different filesystem. Just make a 9.5 directory in the same spot when the time comes around. With ZFS snapshots available, there's really no reason not to use the --link option to greatly speed up upgrades.

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Keith Fiske
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OmniTI Computer Consulting, Inc.
http://www.keithf4.com

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