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What is Visibility?

Simply put, the visibility refers to whether a row of data (Heap Tuple by default) should be displayed to the user in certain states, backend processes, or transactions.

For example,

1. Overview

In my previous blogs, I discussed Setting up a debugging environment in PostgreSQL to better understand OpenSSL APIs, Enhance PostgreSQL TLS Security with OCSP Stapling, and How to setup TLS connection for PostgreSQL.

You could be saving money every month on databases costs with a smarter data retention policy. One of the primary reasons, and a huge benefit of partitioning is using it to automatically archive your data. For example, you might have a huge log table. For business purposes, you need to keep this data for 30 days. This table grows continually over time and keeping all the data makes database maintenance challenging. With time-based partitioning, you can simply archive off data older than 30 days.

We explore PostgreSQL Internals in detail - its processes, architecture, the different types of processes available, and their respective responsibilities.

The post PostgreSQL Internals Part 3: Understanding Processes in PostgreSQL appeared first on Stormatics.

In a PostgreSQL database, sequences provide a convenient way to generate a unique identifier, and are often used for key generation. From the community, PostgreSQL provides functions and SQL language to help manage sequence generation, but the sequences themselves are not without limitations in a multi-master environment.

Last Friday (April 12, 2024) happened, with a record of 270 registrations, the 8th annual PGConf.DE in Munich, Germany.

There definitely was a great lineup: 1 German track, 2 English tracks and 1 sponsors track.

As the two talks I had submitted did not get picked for this year´s PGconf.de, my prep for the conference was all about booking train tickets from Düsseldorf to Munich. Being an early bird definitely paid off – Bernd Helmle and I enjoyed first class luxury, while our procrastinating colleagues ended up paying more for second-class seats.

The news today is that GQL:2024, the first version of the GQL standard, has been published by ISO. GQL is a new language for graph databases, like SQL is for relational databases.

Here is the link to it on the ISO web site:

• ISO/IEC 39075:2024

This is the culmination of work that has been going on formally within ISO since 2019 and for several years more before that in preparation. (There was even a manifesto! How can you go wrong?)

I won’t be able to attend Magnus’ talk at PG Day Chicago because it is scheduled at the same time as my talk, but fortunately, I attended his talk at SCaLe. There are several features I am really excited about, and I can’t wait to start using them!

This is the second article in a series that explores advanced strategies for scaling PostgreSQL databases in Kubernetes with the help of CloudNativePG. This article focuses on horizontal table partitioning and tablespaces and how they can be used to manage large datasets. By partitioning tables based on specific criteria and optimising storage with tablespaces, PostgreSQL users can achieve better scalability and performance in cloud-native environments, just like they could in traditional VMs or bare metal deployments.

This post looks at some interesting new capabilities managing Partitioned Tables coming in PostgreSQL 17, expected for release Fall 2024. The current major version is 16.

Current Table Partition Commands

Prior to Version 17, workflow options for partition management are limited to creating, attaching, and detaching partitions.

Once we’ve designed our partition structure, we couldn’t redesign it in place.

Why do we need vector databases? The proliferation of embeddings immediately brought forth the need to efficiently store, index, and search these arrays of floats. However, these steps are just a small piece of the overall technology stack required to make use of embeddings. The task of transforming source data to embeddings and the serving of the transformer models that make this happen is often left as a task to the application developer. If that developer is part of a large organization, they might have a machine learning or data engineering team to help them.

Coming up this week: the fourth installment of the Postgres extension ecosystem mini-summit. The topic: Trusted Language Extensions, a.k.a. TLEs.

Any database engine, including PostgreSQL, requires some routine maintenance to ensure optimal performance. Especially when there are massive delete or purge operations to delete rows from a Table, the fragmentation builds up within a table. Reclaim this fragmented space from disk requires a table to be rebuilt. At HexaCluster, we had many Customers asking us […]

Toulouse, 15 April 2024

The upcoming PostgreSQL 17 will ship with improved query cancellation capabilities, as part of the libpq, and so will the upcoming release of Psycopg version 3.2.

About a month ago, Alvaro Herrera committed the following patch to PostgreSQL:

A new feature to run a single script at the very beginning of the cluster lifecycle.

pgenv: run once scripts

Today pgenv got a new release that provides a simple, but quite useful, feature: the capability to run a custom script the first time the instance is started.

Recently I joined Ry Walker, CEO of Tembo, as a guest on the Hacking Postgres podcast.

Hacking Postgres has had a lot of great Postgres contributors as guests on the show, so I was honored to be a part of it being that my contributions are more in the form of developer education and advocacy.

Ry asked me about when I got started with PostgreSQL and what my role looks like today.

I just got the coin in the mail!

PostgreSQL 16 Coin

I just received in the mail the PostgreSQL 16 Coin with a great artwork!

I’m really happy to be part of this great community!

Have you ever wanted to use a non-superuser role in a Postgres database to perform actions that are normally restricted? Even something as simple as reading from the pg_stat_activity view requires special permissions to view the query column because it could contain sensitive information.

This is not the usual Waiting for post, but something should be said. Back in March/April of 2022 Andres Dunstan committed a series of patches that added support for lots of really interesting features from SQL/JSON standard. While I'm not avid user of json in database, I was very, very happy. Wrote couple of blogposts … Continue reading "Waiting for …: SQL/JSON is coming back. Hopefully."