Ryan Lambert: Psycopg3 Initial Review
If you use Postgres and Python together you are almost certainly familiar with psycopg2. Daniele Varrazzo has been the maintainer of the psycopg project for many years. In 2020 Daniele started working...
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Hans-Juergen Schoenig: PostgreSQL: Create indexes after bulk loading
Over the years, many of our PostgreSQL clients have asked whether it makes sense to create indexes before – or after – importing data. Does it make sense to disable indexes when bulk loading data, or...
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Laurenz Albe: Index bloat reduced in PostgreSQL v14
© Laurenz Albe 2021PostgreSQL v12 brought more efficient storage for indexes, and v13 improved that even more by adding deduplication of index entries. But Peter Geoghegan is not done yet! PostgreSQL...
View ArticleBrandur Leach: How We Went All In on sqlc/pgx for Postgres + Go
After a few months of research and experimentation with running a heavily DB-dependent Go app, we’ve arrived at the conclusion that sqlc is the figurative Correct Answer when it comes to using Postgres...
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Sergey Pronin: PostgreSQL Custom Dashboards Ported to Percona Monitoring and...
At the recent Percona Live, Agustín Gallego and I did a presentation “Optimizing and Troubleshooting PostgreSQL with PMM“. While preparing for this talk, I’ve ported some of the older PostgreSQL custom...
View ArticleLuca Ferrari: Using jq to get information out of pgbackrest
pgbackrest supports the JSON output format, and this can be useful to automate some information analysys.Using jq to get information out of pgbackrestpgbackrest offers the output of its commands in the...
View ArticleHubert 'depesz' Lubaczewski: Waiting for PostgreSQL 15 – Revoke PUBLIC CREATE...
On 10th of September 2021, Noah Misch committed patch: Revoke PUBLIC CREATE from public schema, now owned by pg_database_owner. This switches the default ACL to what the documentation has recommended...
View ArticleBrandur Leach: Postgres: Boundless `text` and Back Again
One of the major revelations for almost every new user to Postgres is that there’s no technical advantage of specifying columns as varchar(n) compared to just using bound-less text. Not only is the...
View Articlebrian davis: RDS, Aurora Release Dates
Below are the dates of Postgres major version releases and when they first became available on RDS and Aurora.Useful for gaining a leg up in your office AWS Managed Postgres Major Version Release Date...
View ArticleRegina Obe: PostGIS 3.2.0alpha1 Released
The PostGIS Team is pleased to release the first alpha of the upcoming PostGIS 3.2.0 release.Best served with PostgreSQL 14 beta3. This version of PostGIS utilizes the faster GiST building support API...
View ArticlePavel Stehule: bugfix release of pspg - 5.3.5
you can download source code from https://github.com/okbob/pspg/releases/tag/5.3.5
View ArticleÁlvaro Hernández: Postgres Core Team launches unprecedented attack against...
Postgres Core Team launches unprecedented attack against the Postgres CommunityBeing distributed is the key to the project’s resilienceOne of the often cited advantages of the PostgreSQL project is its...
View ArticleAndreas 'ads' Scherbaum: Soumyadeep Chakraborty
PostgreSQL Person of the Week Interview with Soumyadeep Chakraborty: My hometown is Kolkata, India and I have spent the majority of my life there, including 3 years in the tech industry. More recently...
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Hans-Juergen Schoenig: PostgreSQL: Create indexes after bulk loading
Over the years, many of our PostgreSQL clients have asked whether it makes sense to create indexes before – or after – importing data. Does it make sense to disable indexes when bulk loading data, or...
View ArticleÁlvaro Hernández: Respecting the majority, questioning the status quo as a...
Respecting the majority, questioning the status quo as a minorityYesterday, the PostgreSQL Core Team launched an unprecedented attack on Fundación PostgreSQL as a whole and individually against Alvaro...
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David Kohn: How percentile approximation works (and why it's more useful...
In my recent post on time-weighted averages, I described how my early career as an electrochemist exposed me to the importance of time-weighted averages, which shaped how we built them into TimescaleDB...
View ArticleAmit Kapila: Logical Replication Improvements In PostgreSQL-14
In the upcoming release of PostgreSQL-14, we will see multiple enhancements in Logical Replication which I hope will further increase its usage. This blog is primarily to summarize and briefly explain...
View ArticleYugo Nagata: Tuple Duplicates Support in Incremental View Maintenance
IntroductionIn the previous posts ([1], [2], [3]), I have explained the Incremental View Maintenance (IVM) that we are proposing as a new feature of PostgreSQL. As I explained in [1], our IVM...
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Pavlo Golub: PostgreSQL schedulers: comparison table
Hello, my name is Pavlo Golub, and I am a scheduler addict. That began when I implemented pg_timetable for PostgreSQL. I wrote a lot about it. In this post, I want to share the result of my...
View ArticleMichał Mackiewicz: Broken indexes after Linux upgrade
Upgrading one’s operating system to new major version is an important system maintenance task and it’s usually a good thing. It brings new features, security improvements, access to newer packages and...
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