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For PGSQL Phriday #016, Ryan’s asked us to “…discuss your process for tuning difficult queries. Specifically, try to focus on that one problematic query that really challenged you and you always use it as an example when helping or teaching others your methods.” Here are the generic steps I take, mostly in order. After that […]

Sometimes when we have an existing database and schema full of tables, there comes a time when we need to perform a migration. Maybe it’s because we want to move to or from a cloud service. Perhaps we have a small database and want to do a quick version upgrade via dump / restore. Whatever the reason, we may decide to clean up some technical debt while we’re making the transition.

Back on March 28, I asked the Postgres community whether new services for PGXN v2 should be written in Go, Rust, or “some of each”.

Last Tuesday (May 7, 2024) happened PGConf.BE in Leuven, Belgium. Living in Belgium myself, going to tech conferences in my own country is always a little bit special (and so much fun!).
While it was only the 4th time that the event was (very successfully) organized, and despite the attendance was not very high, this cozy conference still manage to have great line-up of talks every year!

Multi-master architecture has gained significant traction in the world of database management, offering a solution to traditional limitations in scalability, fault tolerance, and high availability. By allowing multiple nodes to operate as master, this architecture promises a more flexible and robust database system. However, along with these benefits come certain challenges, including data consistency, resource […]

I have just completed the first draft of the Postgres 17 release notes. It includes developer community feedback but still needs more XML markup and links.

Whether you are managing a large table or setting up automatic archiving, time based partitioning in Postgres is incredibly powerful. pg_partman’s newest versions support a huge variety of custom time internals.

The PostgreSQL Global Development Group has announced minor version updates to all supported PostgreSQL versions : 16, 15, 14, 13, and 12. These minor version updates introduce over 55 bug fixes that have been reported in recent months, reflecting PostgreSQL’s commitment to stability and performance. You might have seen our summary of PostgreSQL in 2023, […]

Learn how to optimize fill factor to boost database performance, minimize fragmentation, and balance storage needs.

The post Understanding PostgreSQL Fill Factor: Benefits, Drawbacks, and Best Practices appeared first on Stormatics.

Tuning Parameters vs. Tuning Queries is yet another talk that “almost made it” to a couple of conferences but ended up being on the reserve list, and I never had to present it anywhere except for Chicago PUG. And one more time, my friends at Microsoft are giving me a chance:)

Mapping Oracle Number Data types using any conversion tools has always been a topic of conversation that I’ve engaged in with my customers and partners. Schema conversion and data type conversion are among the first tasks we undertake once migration is initiated post-assessment. I have previously collaborated and contributed a detailed article on number data type mapping and its significance. Feel free to give it a read.

Coroot, an open source observability tool powered by eBPF, went generally available with version 1.0 last week. As this tool is cloud-native, we were curious to know how it can help troubleshoot databases on Kubernetes.In this blog post, we will see how to quickly debug PostgreSQL with Coroot and Percona Operator for PostgreSQL.PrepareInstall CorootThe easiest […]

The video for Yurri Rashkovskii’s presentation at the fifth Postgres Extension Ecosystem Mini-Summit last week is up. Links:

• Video
• PDF Slides

Here’s my interpolation of YouTube’s auto-generated transcript, interspersed with chat activity.

Until now, managing and updating Data Definition Language (DDL) schemas in PostgreSQL was a time-consuming, manual effort and especially difficult in a distributed environment.  With the introduction of automatic DDL replication, pgEdge makes it easier and faster to deliver distributed applications built on open, standard-based PostgreSQL.  In this blog, we delve into what Automatic DDL replication entails and how it can be leveraged effectively with pgEdge.

An Event for Postgres (pronounced /Pō-zet/, and formerly called Citus Con) is a free and virtual developer event. The name POSETTE stands for Postgres Open Source Ecosystem Talks Training & Education.

@ Laurenz Albe 2024

This article is a kind of failure story. I originally set out to write a piece about the PostgreSQL parameter cursor_tuple_fraction, only to discover that my boss has already covered that topic to some extent. Then I thought that I could investigate the parameter’s effect on the JDBC driver. That led me to an embarrassingly long wrestle with auto_explain and an eventual failure to find anything. But the world is littered with success stories, so why not share some failure?

PostgreSQL Person of the Week Interview with Nazir Bilal Yavuz: I am Nazir Bilal Yavuz, open source PostgreSQL developer working at Microsoft. I live in Turkey. I spend my free time by doing sports, playing games and football, watching tv series and movies.

Listen/notify in Postgres is an incredible feature that makes itself useful in all kinds of situations. I’ve been using it a long time, started taking it for granted long ago, and was somewhat shocked recently looking into MySQL and SQLite to learn that even in 2024, no equivalent exists.

At PG Day Chicago, I presented an extended version of my talk given last year at Citus.con – Temporal Tables and Standard. Just between the time my talk was accepted and I delivered the presentation, I learned that PG 17 would include the first-ever support of an important temporal feature: uni-temporal primary keys and unique constraints.

Last weekend, Jenn and I headed to Bellingham for LinuxFest Northwest. It was my first time back since about 2015, and I’ve really missed attending this laid-back, 100% volunteer-run, free to attend event. We had a lot of good conversations with folks coming by the booth. Some stats: I’m glad to see LFNW back on […]