Postgres Quiz Archive

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PostgreSQL 14 Internals Chapter 1

A quiz to test the knowledge of those reading and learning from Postgres 14 Internals book by Egor Rogov, covering topics in Chapter 1.

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Which fork contains the actual table data?

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When PostgreSQL is running what can it be referred to as?

Choose 2 option

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What is the name of the mechanism used to store a row bigger than a page size?

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What is the purpose of the template1 database?

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What is the purpose of the public schema?

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A Postgres cluster consists of 2 or more physical servers accessing one Postgres Instance?

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Which fork is specific for unlogged tables?

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A single Postgres Instance can server only one database?

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Postgres by default has built in connection pooling abilities?

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What is the purpose of wal writer?

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What is the name of the system catalog table for relations?

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What is the default standard size for a fork file?

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What is the name of the 2 default tablespaces created after initialization?

choose 2

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How many rows in a page does Postgres aim to have before considering TOAST?

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Files are logically split into pages?

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System Catalog tables begin with which prefix?

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Some System Catalog tables are common to all databases in the cluster?

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What 3 files/forks as a minimum make up a table on disk?

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It is the postmasters job to listener for incoming connections?

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A schema can belong to more than one database?

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PostgreSQL 14 Internals Chapter 2

A quiz to test the knowledge of those reading and learning from Postgres 14 Internals book by Egor Rogov, covering topics in Chapter 2.

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A phantom read anomaly occurs when?

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What is the acronym used for the attributes that ensure Data consistency, integrity and durability?

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which of the below statements will start a transaction as Read Repeatable?

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The more locks a transaction acquires, the better it is isolated from other transactions?

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Which parameters sets the database default isolation level?

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Based on Snapshot Isolation use of MVCC which of the below are permitted?

choose 3

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What is the default Isolation Level?

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Snapshot isolation is preferred but increases the number of required locks?

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At any moment the database system can contain several versions of one and the same row?

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Data Consistency is best handled at the application layer rather than at the database layer?

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PostgreSQL 14 Internals Chapter 3

A quiz to test the knowledge of those reading and learning from Postgres 14 Internals book by Egor Rogov, covering topics in Chapter 3.

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Which function can we use to find the current transaction ID?

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a transaction containing a savepoint is will still be considered as only a single transaction?

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Which 2 items does a Virtual XID consist of?

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Each page has a layer that usually consists of?

choose 2

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Rows of TOAST tables are handled in such a way that they are never update?

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Information about subtransactions is stored under?

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The page header stores checksum and the sizes of the other parts of the page?

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If a transaction aborts, all page changes are reverted(rolled back) in place?

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What does an Item Pointer contain?

choose 3

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A page along with its tuples is read into the buffer cache with compression transformations to enhance cache efficiency?

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