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On 24th of March 2021, Peter Eisentraut committed patch: Add date_bin function   Similar to date_trunc, but allows binning by an arbitrary interval rather than just full units.

While migrating to PostgreSQL, some of the users may be curious about the type of replication offered by PostgreSQL. Some might want to know if they have to pay any additional enterprise license in order to achieve this requirement. This is because, a few commercial databases require a customer to take an enteprise license to setup replication. But, PostgreSQL, like advanced Open Source databases, automatically offers several types of replication methods built-in.

Logging is an important topic and particularly useful for troubleshooting, debugging and monitoring. Many applications have their own build-in logging mechanism. Pgpool-II logging mechanism is similar to PostgreSQL logging mechanism. Pgpool-II log management system supports two ways for logging messages (stderr and syslog) and the logging collector process collects the logs sent to stderr and redirects them into log files. However, how can we manage the logging system on Kubernetes? In this blog, I will describe how to manage Pgpool-II container logs on Kubernetes.

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Users with an Oracle background consider tablespaces very important and are surprised that you can find so little information about them in PostgreSQL. This article will explain what they are, when they are useful and whether or not you should use them.

Post Views: 0 Introduction What is Greenplum Database? This is on of PostgreSQL forks optimized for OLAP and analytics workloads. In my opinion the second life of GreenplumDB began in 2015 year. In this year Greenplum became the open source project. The current 6 version...

With the rise of Postgres, new organizations are evaluating how to benefit from its power and flexibility. As that evaluation progresses, Postgres advocates must address the question, "Is Postgres secure?"

PostgreSQL Person of the Week Interview with Jan Karremans: I was born in a very small village in the south of the Netherlands. From there I ended up, through a short time of living in Germany, at the German Border in the Middle East of The Netherlands.

A glance at Raku implementation for PostgreSQL database connectivity.

Introduction

Currently, the global PostgreSQL development team, led by Amit Kapila, continues to contribute to the community as part of Fujitsu's work on PostgreSQL. As a member of this team, I am actively working with talented and passionate community members around the world to advance PostgreSQL.

Our team will publish blog posts focusing on the features and patches that members have worked on. This article discusses "Batch Insert to Foreign Table" committed to PostgreSQL 14, explaining why we've worked on it and the resulting exciting performance improvements.

One of the performance projects I’ve focused on in PostgreSQL 14 is speeding up PostgreSQL recovery and vacuum. In the PostgreSQL team at Microsoft, I spend most of my time working with other members of the community on the PostgreSQL open source project.

An interesting extension that helps removing bloating from tables and databases.

A simple view to see if a user can perform backups.

We at Crunchy Data put as much development effort into improving GEOS as we do improving PostGIS proper, because the GEOS library is so central to much geospatial processing.

Just like any advanced relational database, PostgreSQL uses a cost-based query optimizer that tries to turn your SQL queries into something efficient that executes in as little time as possible. For many people, the workings of the optimizer itself remain a mystery, so we have decided to give users some insight into what is really going on behind the scenes.

On 19th of March 2021, Robert Haas committed patch: Allow configurable LZ4 TOAST compression.   There is now a per-column COMPRESSION option which can be set to pglz (the default, and the only option in up until now) or lz4. Or, if you like, you can set the new default_toast_compression GUC to lz4, and then … Continue reading "Waiting for PostgreSQL 14 – Allow configurable LZ4 TOAST compression."

In a previous post, I talked about pg_stat_statements as a tool for helping direct your query optimization efforts. Now let's say you've identified some queries you want to look into. The EXPLAIN command helps you look even closer into an individual query.

PostgreSQL Person of the Week Interview with Julien Riou: My name is Julien Riou. I currently work at OVHcloud, a major Cloud Computing provider in Europe. As a student, I discovered GNU/Linux. I started my career as a system administrator, then I became an open-source database specialist. I live in Belgium, a small country with cold and wet Winters but also with warm welcoming people.

FreeBSD service(8) is a fully featured system to manage services, and allows multiple instances of PostgreSQL.

This was the most common cause of calls at might: your cluster ran out of space. Nowadays, we can add storage on the fly, storage is cheap and (normally) we do monitor disk space so that this should not happen. Anyhow, how can we deal with such a problem? To simulate such a problem, I created a virtual host and I created a bug empty file to almost fill the file system.

One of the big new things in Citus 10 is that you can now shard Postgres on a single Citus node. So in addition to using the Citus extension to Postgres to scale out Postgres across a distributed cluster, you can now also: