PostgreSQL parameters#

Parameters for creating a service#

These parameters are provided as parameters in the method CreateService.

When creating a new service, the parameters marked as Required should be provided.

If the selected version PostgreSQL supports other parameters, they can be set in the options parameter.

version#

DBMS version.

Required

Datatype

Valid Values

Yes

String

10
11
12
13
14
15

replication_mode#

Replication mode in the Patroni cluster. Available only when the High-availability service option is selected.

Required

Datatype

Valid Values

Yes, if the High-availability service option is selected.

String

asynchronous
synchronous
synchronous_strict

autovacuum#

Controls whether the server should run the autovacuum launcher daemon.

Required

Datatype

Valid Values

Default

Auto

No

String

ON/OFF

ON

N/A

autovacuum_max_workers#

Specifies the maximum number of autovacuum processes (other than the autovacuum launcher) that may be running at any one time.

Required

Datatype

Valid Values

Default

Auto

No

Integer

1–262143

3

= vCPU, min 3

autovacuum_vacuum_cost_delay#

Specifies the cost delay value in milliseconds that will be used in automatic VACUUM operations.

Required

Datatype

Valid Values

Default

Auto

No

Integer

-1
1–100

20 (ver 10-11)
2 (ver 12+)

N/A

autovacuum_vacuum_cost_limit#

Specifies the cost limit value that will be used in automatic VACUUM operations.

Required

Datatype

Valid Values

Default

Auto

No

Integer

-1
1–10000

-1

N/A

autovacuum_analyze_scale_factor#

Specifies a fraction of the table size to add to autovacuum_analyze_threshold when deciding whether to trigger an ANALYZE.

Required

Datatype

Valid Values

Default

Auto

No

Float

0–100

0.1

N/A

autovacuum_vacuum_scale_factor#

Specifies a fraction of the table size to add to autovacuum_vacuum_threshold when deciding whether to trigger a VACUUM.

Required

Datatype

Valid Values

Default

Auto

No

Float

0–100

0.2

N/A

max_connections#

The maximum number of simultaneous connections to the database server.

Required

Datatype

Valid Values

Default

Auto

No

Integer

1–262143

100

200 × vCPU

shared_buffers#

Sets the amount of memory the database server uses for shared memory buffers. See for details

Required

Datatype

Valid Values

Default

Auto

No

Integer

16–1073741823

1024

25% RAM

wal_keep_segments#

The minimum number of log files segments that should be kept in the pg_xlog directory, in case a standby server needs to fetch them for streaming replication. This parameter is relevant only for PostgreSQL: 10, 11, 12 version.

Required

Datatype

Valid Values

Default

Auto

No

Integer

0–2147483647

0

4

min_wal_size#

As long as WAL disk usage stays below this setting (in bytes), old WAL files are always recycled for future use at a checkpoint, rather than removed.

Required

Datatype

Valid Values

Default

Auto

No

Integer

32–2147483647 MiB

80 MiB

5% of the volume,
1 GiB max

max_wal_size#

The max size in bytes that WAL can reach at automatic checkpoints.

Required

Datatype

Valid Values

Default

Auto

No

Integer

2–2147483647 MiB

1 GiB

10% of the volume,
8 GiB max

wal_buffers#

Shared memory to buffer WAL data not yet written to a volume. It is an integer number specifying the quantity of 8 KB units.

Required

Datatype

Valid Values

Default

Auto

No

Integer

8–262143

1/32 shared buffers, no less than 8 (64 KiB), but no more that the size of 1 WAL segment

N/A

effective_cache_size#

Sets the planner’s assumption about the effective size of the disk cache that is available to a single query. See details.

Required

Datatype

Valid Values

Default

Auto

No

Integer

1–2147483647

524288

N/A

work_mem#

Sets the base maximum amount of memory in bytes to be used by a query operation (such as a sort or hash table) before writing to temporary disk files.

Required

Datatype

Valid Values

Default

Auto

No

Integer

64–2147483647 KiB

4 MiB

N/A

maintenance_work_mem#

Specifies the maximum amount of memory in bytes to be used by maintenance operations, such as VACUUM, CREATE INDEX, and ALTER TABLE ADD FOREIGN KEY.

Required

Datatype

Valid Values

Default

Auto

No

Integer

1 MiB–2 GiB

64 MiB

N/A

effective_io_concurrency#

Sets the number of concurrent disk I/O operations.

Required

Datatype

Valid Values

Default

Auto

No

Integer

0–1000

1

N/A

max_worker_processes#

Sets the maximum number of background processes that the system can support.

Required

Datatype

Valid Values

Default

Auto

No

Integer

0–262143

8

= vCPU

max_parallel_workers_per_gather#

Sets the maximum number of workers that can be started by a single Gather node. Parallel workers are taken from the pool of processes established by max_worker_processes.

Required

Datatype

Valid Values

Default

Auto

No

Integer

0–1024

2

vCPU/2

max_parallel_maintenance_workers#

Sets the maximum number of parallel workers that can be started by a single utility command. This parameter is relevant only for PostgreSQL versions 11 and higher.

Required

Datatype

Valid Values

Default

Auto

No

Integer

0–1024

2

vCPU/2

max_parallel_workers#

Sets the maximum number of workers that the system can support for parallel operations.

Required

Datatype

Valid Values

Default

Auto

No

Integer

0–1024

8

= vCPU

monitoring - The monitoring information for the instance#

Connection to a monitoring service.

Required

Editable

Datatype

Valid Values

Default

For all services, except for Prometheus

Yes

Boolean

true
false

false

monitor_by#

Monitoring service ID. The specified service must be deployed in the same project as the current service.

Required

Editable

Datatype

Valid Values

Yes, if the monitoring = true parameter is passed. If monitoring = false, the parameter cannot be passed

Yes

String

The ID of a monitoring service running within the same VPC as the current service

monitoring_labels#

Labels to be assigned to the metrics of the monitored service in the monitoring service.

Required

Editable

Datatype

Valid Values

No. If monitoring = false, the parameter cannot be passed

Yes

Dict

The label name may contain digits, Latin letters, and an underscore character. The label value may contain any ASCII characters.

logging#

Connection to a logging service.

Required

Editable

Datatype

Valid Values

Default

For all services, except for ELK and Prometheus

Yes

Boolean

true
false

false

log_to#

Logging service ID. The logged service must be deployed in the same project as the current service.

Required

Editable

Datatype

Valid Values

Default

Yes, if the logging = true parameter is passed. If logging = false, the parameter cannot be passed

Yes

String

The ID of a monitoring service running within the same VPC as the current service

logging_tags#

Tags to be assigned in the logging service to the log records of the current service.

Required

Editable

Datatype

Valid Values

Default

No. If logging = false, the parameter cannot be passed

Yes

List of strings

String of 256 characters max

options#

Container for other parameters PostgreSQL.

Note

If the parameter name includes a dot, then it cannot be passed in the container for additional parameters. If you need to use such parameter, contact technical support.

Required

Datatype

Valid Values

No

Dict

N/A

User creation parameters#

These parameters are specified in the parameters attribute of the User object when the latter is passed in the users parameter of the ModifyService method.

The Editable property indicates whether the parameter value can be edited after the user has been created.

password#

Required

Editable

Datatype

Valid Values

Default

Yes

Yes

String

It should not contain such characters as ', ", ` and \

N/A

Parameters for creating a database#

These parameters are specified in the parameters attribute of the Database object when the latter is passed in the databases parameter of the ModifyService method.

The Editable property indicates whether a parameter value can be edited after the database has been created.

The backup_id and backup_db_name parameters are used to restore a database from an existing backup. Information about existing backups can be obtained using the method ListBackups.

owner#

Name of the user who is the database owner. This must be one of the existing users. Such a user cannot be deleted as long as it is the database owner.

Required

Editable

Datatype

Valid Values

Default

Yes

Yes

String

Existing database user

N/A

locale#

Required

Editable

Datatype

Valid Values

Default

No

No

String

Any correct encoding value

ru_RU.UTF-8

encoding#

Required

Editable

Datatype

Valid Values

Default

No

No

String

Any correct encoding value

UTF8

extensions#

Extensions to be installed for the database.

Required

Editable

Datatype

Valid Values

Default

No

Yes

Array of strings

address_standardizer
address_standardizer_data_us
amcheck
autoinc
bloom
btree_gin
btree_gist
citext
cube
dblink
dict_int
dict_xsyn
earthdistance
fuzzystrmatch
hstore
intarray
isn
lo
ltree
moddatetime
pg_buffercache
pg_trgm
pg_visibility
pgcrypto
pgrowlocks
pgstattuple
postgis
postgis_tiger_geocoder
postgis_topology
postgres_fdw
seg
tablefunc
tcn
timescaledb
tsm_system_rows
tsm_system_time
unaccent
uuid-ossp
xml2

N/A

backup_id#

Database backup ID.

Required

Editable

Datatype

Valid Values

Default

No

No

String

ID of an existing database backup.

N/A

backup_db_name#

The name of a database from the backup specified in the backup_id parameter.

Required

Editable

Datatype

Valid Values

Default

Yes, if backup_id is specified

No

String

The name of a database included in the backup

N/A