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Avinash Kumar: PostgreSQL Upgrade Using pg_dumpall

There are several approaches to assess when you need to upgrade PostgreSQL. In this blog post, we look at the option for upgrading a postgres database using pg_dumpall. As this tool can also be used to...

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Tim Colles: PostgreSQL Roles are Cluster-Wide

A role in PostgreSQL is common to all databases in the cluster. This seems to be the result of a design decision made when the former user and group handling was unified under role. Follow these links...

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elein mustain: Having Group By Clauses elein’s GeneralBits

Some people go to great lengths to avoid GROUP BY and HAVING clauses in their queries. The error messages are fussy but they are usually right. GROUP BY and HAVING key words are essential for good SQL...

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Hans-Juergen Schoenig: Foreign data wrapper for PostgreSQL: Performance Tuning

Foreign data wrappers have been around for quite a while and are one of the most widely used feature in PostgreSQL. People simply like foreign data wrappers and we can expect that the community will...

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Hubert 'depesz' Lubaczewski: Waiting for PostgreSQL 12 – Partial...

On 16th of March 2019, Alexander Korotkov committed patch: Partial implementation of SQL/JSON path language   SQL 2016 standards among other things contains set of SQL/JSON features for JSON processing...

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Hubert 'depesz' Lubaczewski: Migrating simple table to partitioned. How?

Recently someone asked, on irc, how to make table partitioned. The thing is that it was supposed to be done with new partitioning, and not the old way. The problem is that while we can create table...

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Christophe Pettus: “Look It Up: Practical PostgreSQL Indexing” at Nordic...

The slides from my presentation at PGDay Nordic 2019 are now available.

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Craig Kerstiens: How to evaluate your database

Choosing a database isn’t something you do every day. You generally choose it once for a project, then don’t look back. If you experience years of success with your application you one day have to...

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Yogesh Sharma: PostgreSQL Zero to Hero: Getting Started with RPMs -Part 1

One of the most important things to using PostgreSQL successfully in your development and production environments is simply getting started! One of the most popular ways to install PostgreSQL is by...

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Peter Bengtsson: Best way to count distinct indexed things in PostgreSQL

`SELECT COUNT(*) FROM (SELECT DISTINCT my_not_unique_indexed_column FROM my_table) t`

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Pavel Stehule: How to split string to array by individual characters?

Postgres has too much features, so sometimes is good to remind some.Function string_to_array is well known. This function has two or three parameters. If second parameter (delimiter) is null, then...

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Viorel Tabara: Benchmarking Managed PostgreSQL Cloud Solutions - Part Two:...

This is the second part of the multi-series Benchmarking Managed PostgreSQL Cloud Solutions. In Part 1 I presented an overview of the available tools, I discussed the reason for using the AWS Benchmark...

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Peter Geoghegan: Visualizing Postgres page images within GDB

It's straightforward to set up GDB to quickly invoke pg_hexedit on a page image, without going through the filesystem. The page image can even come from a local temp buffer.A user-defined GDB command...

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Tatsuo Ishii: Shared Relation Cache

 System catalogs?Pgpool-II needs to access PostgreSQL's system catalogs whenever it recognizes tables in user's query.  For example, Pgpool-II has to know whether the table in question is a temporary...

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Beena Emerson: PostgreSQL : Test Coverage

Install lcovInstall Dependencies:yum install perl-develyum install perl-Digest-MD5yum install perl-GDDownload and install lcovrpm -U lcov-1.13-1.el7.noarch.rpmRun TestConfigure and makeUse the...

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Luca Ferrari: psql.it Mailing List is Back!

The historical mailing list of the Italian psql.it group has been succesfully migrated!psql.it Mailing List is Back!With the great work of people behind the psql.it Italian group the first (and for...

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Regina Obe: PGConf US 2019 Data Loading Slides up

I gave a talk at PGConf US 2019 on some of the many ways you can load data into PostgreSQL using open source tools. This is similar to the talk I gave last year but with the addition of the pgloader...

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Stefan Fercot: pgBackRest archiving tricks

pgBackRest is a well-known powerful backup and restore tool.While the documentation describes all the parameters, it’s not always that simple to imagine what you can really do with it.In this post, I...

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Hans-Juergen Schoenig: Speeding up GROUP BY in PostgreSQL

In SQL the GROUP BY clause groups records into summary rows and turns large amounts of data into a smaller set. GROUP BY returns one records for each group. While most people know how to use GROUP BY...

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Paul Ramsey: Notes for FDW in PostgreSQL 12

TL;DR: There are some changes in PostgresSQL 12 that FDW authors might be surprised by! Super technical, not suitable for ordinary humans.OK, so I decided to update my two favourite extension projects...

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