PostgreSQL is a well-designed open-source multi-purpose relational database system which is widely used throughout the world. It is one huge system with the integrated subsystems, each of which has a particular complex feature and works with each other cooperatively. Although understanding of the internal mechanism is crucial for both administration and integration using PostgreSQL, its hugeness and complexity prevent it. The main purposes of this document are to explain how each subsystem works, and to provide the whole picture of PostgreSQL.

This document is based on the book I wrote in Japanese in 2012, and covers version 15 and earlier.

Some academic papers have referred to this document. The Chinese version of this document was published in June 2019.

• Chapter 1. Database Cluster, Databases and Tables
• Chapter 2. Process and Memory Architecture
• Chapter 3. Query Processing
• Chapter 4. Foreign Data Wrappers (FDW) and Parallel Query
• Chapter 5. Concurrency Control
• Chapter 6. VACUUM Processing
• Chapter 7. Heap Only Tuple (HOT) and Index-Only Scans
• Chapter 8. Buffer Manager
• Chapter 9. Write Ahead Logging (WAL)
• Chapter 10. Base Backup and Point-In-Time Recovery (PITR)
• Chapter 11. Streaming Replication

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Hironobu SUZUKI

I graduated from graduate school in information engineering (M.S. in Information Engineering), have worked for several companies as a software developer and technical manager/director. I published seven books in the fields of database and system integration (4 PostgreSQL books and 3 MySQL books). In June 2019, the Chinese book of this document was published.

As a director of the Japan PostgreSQL Users Group (2010-2016), I organized the largest (non-commercial) technical seminar/lecture on PostgreSQL in Japan for more than six years, and also served as the program committee chair of the Japan PostgreSQL Conference in 2013 and as a member in 2008 and 2009.

In 2021, I released pg_plan_inspector that is a framework to monitor and improve the performance of PostgreSQL using Machine Learning methods.

In June 2022, my interview article was published in "PostgreSQL person of the week".

Cuando era joven, vivió en Sudamérica por unos años. Recientemente, a veces vuelve a allí.

I am considering looking for a new job.
I love Swiss, however, I would like to do new challenges, e.g. applying ML and AI technologies to DBMS. I am waiting for contacts from people who want to do new things.

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