Performance Tuning
2ndQuadrant principal consultant Gregory Smith has worked hard to popularize PostgreSQL as a high-performance database platform, making the solutions to the most common problems easy to find and implement.
But when you reach a problem that general guidelines just aren't good enough for, consider our specialized performance tuning services. We can get your applications running smoothly, on-time and on-budget.
"I found their knowledge of Postgres to be quite astounding; within a short time many of our frequently executed queries were 1000 times faster. The best part was that I was given a good foundation of knowledge to do this myself using freely available tools."
Jason, South African Postgres Sysadmin, recent client (2008)
The unique experience 2ndQuadrant brings to performance tuning work is providing direct access to PostgreSQL feature contributors with deep source code level expertise. Database writes not performing as well as expected? Consult with Greg Smith, who wrote the current background writer logic handling that job.
Replication overhead on your slave systems higher than expected? Find out why from Simon Riggs, original author of the WAL shipping replication method, and developer of countless other performance related features too. Trying to scale up a large system in a 24x7 environment? Get advice from Hannu Krosing, who invented a database architecture approach at Skype to solve just that problem.
