PostgreSQL on S3-backed Block Storage with Near-Local Performance

2025-07-17 Thread Pierre Barre
Hi everyone, I wanted to share a project I've been working on that enables PostgreSQL to run on S3 storage while maintaining performance comparable to local NVMe. The approach uses block-level access rather than trying to map filesystem operations to S3 objects. ZeroFS: https://github.com/Barr

Re: Preallocation changes in Postgresql 16

2024-12-26 Thread Pierre Barre
Hello, It seems that I am running into this issue as well. Is it likely that this would ever be a config option? Best, Pierre Barre On Fri, May 3, 2024, at 05:11, Riku Iki wrote: > I did the testing and confirmed that this was the issue. > > I run following query: > > cr

VACUUM FULL, power failure results in unrecoverable space

2024-12-02 Thread Pierre Barre
Hello, I encountered an issue while attempting to reclaim space from a heavily bloated table: Initial analysis using https://github.com/ioguix/pgsql-bloat-estimation/blob/master/table/table_bloat.sql indicated approximately 600GB of bloat in the table. I initiated a VACUUM FULL operation to r