Session Running PostgreSQL 8 on Windows Lance Obermeyer, director of products, Pervasive Software Track: Databases Date: Thursday, August 4th, 2005 Time: 2:35pm - 3:20pm Location: D136 The recently released PostgreSQL version 8 includes native support for the Microsoft Windows platform. While this greatly expands the possible deployments of PostgreSQL, it also adds uncertainty around best practices. This talk presents the basic performance characteristics for PostgreSQL on Windows. It covers administration items that are specific to Windows, such as networking and user management. Finally, it detaila how to run PostgreSQL on a two node Windows cluster. This session begins by presenting basic performance characteristics of PostgreSQL on Windows, so that administrators will be able to project whether PostgreSQL on Windows will service their workloads. This includes performance as observed through ODBC as well as directly through libpq. Though new to PostgreSQL, Windows has served as the deployment platform for production databases for many years. Administrators on these other databases have developed best practices around items like system setup, network configuration, and user management. Obermeyer discusses many of these in the context of PostgreSQL. Microsoft Windows 2000/2003 Server Enterprise Edition operating systems include a technology for implementing high availability clusters. This technology, now called Server Clusters, is very popular for running simple two-node shared disk clusters, since they are easy to administer, require no esoteric hardware, and provide improved availability. Configuring a database, however, can be difficult, since there are dependencies beyond just the server process. This talk closes with a checklist for configuring PostgreSQL to run on a system of this form. Download presentation file

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