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     Authors find it challenging to write a comprehensive book about PostgreSQL for several reasons. The first is that a new version of PostgreSQL is released every year with changes, new features, and tweaks.  I am lucky to have been able to review several new database titles each year, and I would like to let you know that Hans-Jurgen Schonig's Mastering PostgreSQL is a well-written reference. 

PostgreSQL has a fairly efficient buffer manager that handles data movement between shared memory and disk storage. Among other things, its primary purpose is to serve as a disk cache for the client backend processes for quick access to data. The size of this buffer is dictated by the setting shared_buffers in postgresql.conf, and its default value is 128 MB.

Broadcasting a quick tip from a real-life “tasklet” where a customer was genuinely surprised why a seemingly logical fix didn’t show up on Google / LLM-s. So let’s see if we can improve on that situation. So in short a large central table was getting too bloated (fragmented) and query...

PostgreSQL 18 is on the way, bringing a set of improvements that many organizations will find useful. It’s not a revolutionary release, but it does move things in a good direction, especially in performance, replication, and simplifying daily operations. For teams already using PostgreSQL, it’s a good time to look into what’s new. For others […]