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The old command was "zenith start", which no longer works.
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# Zenith
Zenith substitutes PostgreSQL storage layer and redistributes data across a cluster of nodes
## Running local installation
1. Build zenith and patched postgres
```sh
git clone --recursive https://github.com/libzenith/zenith.git
cd zenith
./pgbuild.sh # builds postgres and installs it to ./tmp_install
cargo build
```
2. Start pageserver and postggres on top of it (should be called from repo root):
```sh
# Create ~/.zenith with proper paths to binaries and data
# Later that would be responsibility of a package install script
>./target/debug/zenith init
# start pageserver
> ./target/debug/zenith pageserver start
Starting pageserver at '127.0.0.1:64000'
# create and configure postgres data dir
> ./target/debug/zenith pg create
Creating new postgres: path=/Users/user/code/zenith/tmp_check_cli/compute/pg1 port=55432
Database initialized
# start it
> ./target/debug/zenith pg start pg1
# look up status and connection info
> ./target/debug/zenith pg list
NODE ADDRESS STATUS
pg1 127.0.0.1:55432 running
```
3. Now it is possible to connect to postgres and run some queries:
```
> psql -p55432 -h 127.0.0.1 postgres
postgres=# CREATE TABLE t(key int primary key, value text);
CREATE TABLE
postgres=# insert into t values(1,1);
INSERT 0 1
postgres=# select * from t;
key | value
-----+-------
1 | 1
(1 row)
```
## Running tests
```sh
git clone --recursive https://github.com/libzenith/zenith.git
./pgbuild.sh # builds postgres and installs it to ./tmp_install
cargo test -- --test-threads=1
```
## Source tree layout
/walkeeper:
WAL safekeeper. Written in Rust.
/pageserver:
Page Server. Written in Rust.
Depends on the modified 'postgres' binary for WAL redo.
/integration_tests:
Tests with different combinations of a Postgres compute node, WAL safekeeper and Page Server.
/mgmt-console:
Web UI to launch (modified) Postgres servers, using S3 as the backing store. Written in Python.
This is somewhat outdated, as it doesn't use the WAL safekeeper or Page Servers.
/vendor/postgres:
PostgreSQL source tree, with the modifications needed for Zenith.
/vendor/postgres/src/bin/safekeeper:
Extension (safekeeper_proxy) that runs in the compute node, and connects to the WAL safekeepers
and streams the WAL