Greenplum

Deploy/Monitor Greenplum clusters with Pigsty, build Massively Parallel Processing (MPP) PostgreSQL data warehouse clusters!

Pigsty supports deploying Greenplum clusters and its derivative distribution YMatrixDB, and provides the capability to integrate existing Greenplum deployments into Pigsty monitoring.

Overview

Greenplum / YMatrix cluster deployment capabilities are only available in the professional/enterprise editions and are not currently open source.

Installation

Pigsty provides installation packages for Greenplum 6 (@el7) and Greenplum 7 (@el8). Open source users can install and configure them manually.

# EL 7 Only (Greenplum6)
./node.yml -t node_install  -e '{"node_repo_modules":"pgsql","node_packages":["open-source-greenplum-db-6"]}'

# EL 8 Only (Greenplum7)
./node.yml -t node_install  -e '{"node_repo_modules":"pgsql","node_packages":["open-source-greenplum-db-7"]}'

Configuration

To define a Greenplum cluster, you need to use pg_mode = gpsql and additional identity parameters pg_shard and gp_role.

#================================================================#
#                        GPSQL Clusters                          #
#================================================================#

#----------------------------------#
# cluster: mx-mdw (gp master)
#----------------------------------#
mx-mdw:
  hosts:
    10.10.10.10: { pg_seq: 1, pg_role: primary , nodename: mx-mdw-1 }
  vars:
    gp_role: master          # this cluster is used as greenplum master
    pg_shard: mx             # pgsql sharding name & gpsql deployment name
    pg_cluster: mx-mdw       # this master cluster name is mx-mdw
    pg_databases:
      - { name: matrixmgr , extensions: [ { name: matrixdbts } ] }
      - { name: meta }
    pg_users:
      - { name: meta , password: DBUser.Meta , pgbouncer: true }
      - { name: dbuser_monitor , password: DBUser.Monitor , roles: [ dbrole_readonly ], superuser: true }

    pgbouncer_enabled: true                # enable pgbouncer for greenplum master
    pgbouncer_exporter_enabled: false      # enable pgbouncer_exporter for greenplum master
    pg_exporter_params: 'host=127.0.0.1&sslmode=disable'  # use 127.0.0.1 as local monitor host

#----------------------------------#
# cluster: mx-sdw (gp master)
#----------------------------------#
mx-sdw:
  hosts:
    10.10.10.11:
      nodename: mx-sdw-1        # greenplum segment node
      pg_instances:             # greenplum segment instances
        6000: { pg_cluster: mx-seg1, pg_seq: 1, pg_role: primary , pg_exporter_port: 9633 }
        6001: { pg_cluster: mx-seg2, pg_seq: 2, pg_role: replica , pg_exporter_port: 9634 }
    10.10.10.12:
      nodename: mx-sdw-2
      pg_instances:
        6000: { pg_cluster: mx-seg2, pg_seq: 1, pg_role: primary , pg_exporter_port: 9633  }
        6001: { pg_cluster: mx-seg3, pg_seq: 2, pg_role: replica , pg_exporter_port: 9634  }
    10.10.10.13:
      nodename: mx-sdw-3
      pg_instances:
        6000: { pg_cluster: mx-seg3, pg_seq: 1, pg_role: primary , pg_exporter_port: 9633 }
        6001: { pg_cluster: mx-seg1, pg_seq: 2, pg_role: replica , pg_exporter_port: 9634 }
  vars:
    gp_role: segment               # these are nodes for gp segments
    pg_shard: mx                   # pgsql sharding name & gpsql deployment name
    pg_cluster: mx-sdw             # these segment clusters name is mx-sdw
    pg_preflight_skip: true        # skip preflight check (since pg_seq & pg_role & pg_cluster not exists)
    pg_exporter_config: pg_exporter_basic.yml                             # use basic config to avoid segment server crash
    pg_exporter_params: 'options=-c%20gp_role%3Dutility&sslmode=disable'  # use gp_role = utility to connect to segments

Additionally, PG Exporter requires extra connection parameters to connect to Greenplum Segment instances for metric collection.


Last Modified 2026-01-09: add supabase asciinema demo (693cfa8)