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PostgreSQL is, without a doubt, one of the most popular open source databases in the world. Why? Well, there are many reasons, but if I had to pick just one, I’d say it’s extensibility. PostgreSQL isn’t just a database; it’s an ecosystem of extensions that can transform it to tackle any upcoming challenges. By enabling […]

JSON is one of the most popular ways of disseminating data between systems. It is probably the most common offered by webservices. PostgreSQL is a database perfectly suited for grabbing that data and transforming it into a more structured relational format. All this can be done directly in the database. We'll go over some ways to load and restructure json data.

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Occasionally, you will need to capture data when working with a database. You can cut-n-paste or use a shell command like script. In typical PostgreSQL fashion, psql has two ways to save your output.
The First Way You must invoke psql with the --log-file- or -L option. The entire session will be recorded.

stoker@ThinkPad:~$ psql --log-file=/tmp/psqllog demo
Password for user stoker:

On March 12, 2025 Elizabeth Christensen organized Postgres Meetup for All and the event theme was Postgres Schema Migrations. The following people contributed with their respective talks:

On March 25, Chicago PUG members gathered one more time at the Training Center of the DRW Holdings office for our monthly meetup. Our speaker was Ryan Booz, an Advocate at Redgate; he presented the talk Intro to database migrations with Flyway.

PostgreSQL offers advanced capabilities through extensions like pgvector, which enable semantic search at a level and quality never achieved before. Unlike traditional text search, which mostly relies on trivial string comparison, semantic search in PostgreSQL goes beyond keywords by understanding context and
meaning, enhancing relevance.

With extensions such as pgvector and pgai it is possible to combine the power of a relational database with cutting- edge features of modern AI models.

Learn how the latest features in pgstream refine Postgres replication with near real-time data capture, consistent snapshots, and column-level transformations.

Once a year or so Postgres manages to surprise me for some of those daily DB micro-operations, that come from muscle memory usually, without any braincells spent. Today to my delight I stumbled on one such again - for the task of starting a psql session in a safe read-only...

We are currently setting up a staging server (called beta) for a project consisting of two sub-projects and a bunch of services in each project. Each service uses a distinct role (postgres-speech for user), so I needed to set up a lot of roles, where each role has a distinct username and password. We use gopass to manage our passwords (and related info like usernames). When deploying (via Ansible) we can extract the passwords from gopass and inject them into the environment of the containers running the services.

It’s been a couple weeks since P2D2 (Prague PostgreSQL Developer Day) 2025. We’ve been busy with the various tiny tasks that need to happen after the conference - processing feedback, paying invoices, and so on. But it’s also a good opportunity to look back - I realized this was the 15th year of the event I’ve helped to organize, so let me share some of that experience.

The Center for Internet Security (CIS) releases security benchmarks to cover a wide variety of infrastructure used in modern applications, including databases, operating systems, cloud services, containerized services, and even networking. Since 2016 Crunchy Data has collaborated with CIS to provide this security resource for those deploying Postgres. The output of this collaboration is a checklist for folks to follow and improve the security posture of Postgres deployments.

This Wednesday, March 26 at noon America/New_York (16:00 UTC), Peter Eisentraut has graciously agreed to give a talk at the Extension Mini Summit #2 on the extension search path patch he recently committed to Post

Back on March 12, we hosted the first in a series of PostgreSQL Extensions Mini Summits leading up to the Extension Ecosystem Summit at PGConf.dev on May 13. I once again inaugurated the series with a short talk on the State of the Extension Ecosystem. The talk was followed by 15 minutes or so of discussion.

PostgreSQL Person of the Week Interview with Shruthi K C: My name is Shruthi K C, and I live in Bangalore, Karnataka, India. I work as a Database Developer at EnterpriseDB, with over 15 years of experience in databases. The last 4 years I have been primarily focused on PostgreSQL.

For a long time now, PostgreSQL has had an extensible Index Access Method API (called AM), which has stood the test of time and enabled numerous robust extensions to provide their own index types.

With CommitFest 52 (2025-03) - the final CommitFest in the PostgreSQL 18 development cycle - entering its final stages, there has been a burst of activity, and the PostgreSQL 18 code freeze has been announced for April 8th .

The 22nd edition of the Southern California Linux Expo, or SCaLE 22x, took place from March 6-9, 2025, in Pasadena, California. It was a fantastic event packed with insightful talks, community spirit, and legendary figures from the computing world.

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Someone recently asked on the Postgres mailing lists about how to remove unwanted duplicate rows from their table. They are “unwanted” in that sense that the same value appears more than once in a column designated as a primary key. We’ve seen an uptick in this problem since glibc was kind enough to change the way they sorted things. This can lead to invalid indexes when one upgrades their OS and modifies the underlying glibc library.

PostgreSQL is equivalent to a Swiss Army Knife in the database world. There are things in PostgreSQL that are very simple to use, while in another database, they take many more steps to accomplish. But sometimes, the knife has too many blades, which can cause confusion. This is one of those cases. COPY and \COPY I needed a quick dump of a table as part of an ETL (Extract, Transform, and Load - official definition, Exorcism, Trauma, and Lost-sleep - unofficially) to port some data.