117: Managing Concurrency in Postgres with Bruce Momjian - a podcast by Michael Budd, Fraser Hart, Lewis Cains, Edd Mann

from 2017-01-24T09:30

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Following on from our previous look at the Query planner - we are joined again by Bruce Momjian to extend this exploration into looking how Postgres manages concurrency.
We start off by discussing some of the challenges and workarounds used in the past to handle concurrent access, particularly in the eyes of a database administrator.
We then highlight the concept of MVCC, how it works from a high-level, how Postgres implements it and the clean-up considerations that are present.
Finally, we mention how Postgres stores data in page-form, how projects such as pg_compact work to regain space and what the fill-factor is.

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