The file_fdw (Foreign Data Wrapper) is a PostgreSQL extension that lets you access data stored in flat files, like CSV files, as if they were regular tables in your PostgreSQL database. This is useful for integrating external data sources without needing to import the data directly into your database.

Concurrency control in databases ensures that multiple transactions can occur simultaneously without causing data errors. It's essential because, without it, two people updating the same...

In a previous blog post, we configured an EC2 instance and installed PostgreSQL on it. After the initial setup, we ran pgbench to measure the initial TPS (transactions per second). Then, we tuned PostgreSQL and reran pgbench to see how much we could improve the TPS. To tune PostgreSQL, we adjusted various parameters based on the system's available resources. In this blog, we will identify which of those parameters contributed the most to the performance improvements.We will use the same instance size on AWS EC2 as before, which is t2.large. Here is the list of parameters that we initially tuned...

Learn how to configure key parameters to boost Transactions Per Second (TPS) and improve overall database performance.