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Module -3

PostgreSQL Architecture
Module Objectives:
• Fundamentals of PostgreSQL Architecture
• Process and Memory Architecture
• Post Master Process
• Post Master Process Demo
• Utility Processes
• Memory Segments
• Physical Files
PostgreSQL Architecture Fundamentals

• PostgreSQL is a relational database management system with a


client-server architecture.
• PostgreSQL uses "process per-user" client/server model.
• PostgreSQL's has a set of processes and memory structures which
constitutes an instance.
• Programs run by clients connect to the server instance and request
read and write operations.
• Default port of PostgreSQL is 5432.
Process and Memory Architecture

Postmaste Postgr Archiver On Disk


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Archive
Shared Buffer Logs
Other CLOG
Wal Buffer
Buffers Buffer
Wal Files

Stats Checkpoint Wal


Client Collector er Writer
Data
Files
Auto
Logging Writer
Vacuum
Launcher Collector
Log Files
Postmaster – Supervisor process
• Postmaster is the first process which gets started in PostgreSQL
• Postmaster acts as supervisor process, whose job is to monitor, start,
restart some processes if they die.
• Postmaster acts a listener and receive new connection request from the
client.
• Postmaster is responsible for Authentication and Authorization of all
incoming request.
• Postmaster spawns a new process call Postgres for each new connection.
Utility Processes
• Bgwriter\Writer : Periodically writes the dirty buffer to a data file.
• Wal Writer : Write the WAL buffer to the WAL file.
• Checkpointer : Checkpoint is invoked every 5 minute(default) or when
max_wal_size value is exceeded. The check pointer sync all the
buffers from the shared buffer area to the data files.
• Auto vacuum : Responsible to carry vacuum operations on bloated
tables.(If Enabled).
Cont… Utility Processes

• Statscollector: Responsible for collection and reporting of


information about server activity then update the information to
optimizer dictionary((pg_catalog) .
• Logwriter\Logger: Write the error message to the log file.
• Archiver (Optional):When in Archive.log mode, copy the WAL file to
the specified directory.
Memory Segments of PostgreSQL
• Shared Buffers
• Wal Buffers
• Clog Buffers
• Work Memory
• Maintenance Work Memory
• Temp Buffers
Shared Buffer
• User cannot access the datafile directly to read or write any data.
• Any select, insert, update or delete to the data is done via shared
buffer area.
• The data that is written or modified in this location is called “Dirty
data“.
• Dirty data is written to the data files located in physical disk through
background writer process.
• Shared Buffers are controlled by parameter named: shared_buffer
located in postgresql.conf file.
Wal Buffer
• Write ahead logs buffer is also called as “Transaction log Buffers”.
• WAL data is the metadata information about changes to the actual
data, and is sufficient to reconstruct actual data during database
recovery operations.
• WAL data is written to a set of physical files in persistent location
called "WAL segments" or "checkpoint segments".
• Wal buffers are flushed from the buffer area to wal segments by wal
writer.
• Wal buffers memory allocation is controlled by
the wal_buffers parameter
Clog and other buffers

• CLOG stands for "commit log", and the CLOG buffers is an area in operating
system RAM dedicated to hold commit log pages.
• The commit logs have commit status of all transactions and indicate whether
or not a transaction has been completed (committed).
• Work Memory is a memory reserved for either a single sort or hash
table( Parameter : Work_mem)
• Maintenance Work Memory is allocated for Maintenance work( Parameter
: maintenance_work_mem).
• Temp Buffers are used for access to temporary tables in a user session
during large sort and hash table. ( Parameter : temp_buffers).
Physical Files:
• Data Files: It is a file which is use to store data. It does not contain
any instructions or code to be executed.
• Wal Files : Write ahead log file, where all transactions are written
first before commit happens.
• Log Files: All server messages, including stderr, csvlog and syslog are
logged in log files.
• Archive Logs( Optional): Data from wal segments are written on to
archive log files to be used for recovery purpose.
Thank You. 

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