From 911b288d6c0eadb6af2bb8cbc16d8e413e16fde8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Lynn Langit Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2016 12:59:12 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] add info on non-default cluster param groups similar to info on this topic in RDS, just ran into it with a client (again!) last week, so wanted to add it here --- README.md | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 7b63221..e55613e 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -1366,6 +1366,7 @@ Redshift - Although Redshift is mostly Postgres-compatible, its SQL dialect and performance profile are different. - Redshift supports only [12 primitive data types](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift/latest/dg/c_Supported_data_types.html). ([List of unsupported Postgres types](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift/latest/dg/c_unsupported-postgresql-datatypes.html)\) - It has a leader node and computation nodes (the leader node distributes queries to the computation ones). Note that some functions [can be executed only on the lead node.](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift/latest/dg/c_SQL_functions_leader_node_only.html) +- 🔹Make sure to create a new [cluster parameter group](http://docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift/latest/mgmt/working-with-parameter-groups.html) and option group for your database since the default parameter group does not allow dynamic configuration changes. - Major third-party BI tools support Redshift integration (see [Quora](https://www.quora.com/Which-BI-visualisation-solution-goes-best-with-Redshift)). - [Top 10 Performance Tuning Techniques for Amazon Redshift](https://blogs.aws.amazon.com/bigdata/post/Tx31034QG0G3ED1/Top-10-Performance-Tuning-Techniques-for-Amazon-Redshift) provides an excellent list of performance tuning techniques. - [Amazon Redshift Utils](https://github.com/awslabs/amazon-redshift-utils) contains useful utilities, scripts and views to simplify Redshift ops.