Using the HAWQ File Server (gpfdist)

The gpfdist protocol provides the best performance and is the easiest to set up. gpfdist ensures optimum use of all segments in your HAWQ system for external table reads.

This topic describes the setup and management tasks for using gpfdist with external tables.

• About gpfdist Setup and Performance

• Controlling Segment Parallelism

• Installing gpfdist

• Starting and Stopping gpfdist

• Troubleshooting gpfdist