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PostgreSQL 13 Beta 1 has been released for testing.

postgres=# show server_version_num; server_version_num -------------------- 130000 (1 row)

PostgreSQL 13 New Features

More than 160 new features have been added in PostgreSQL 13 compared to its previous versions.

PostgreSQL is written in C, so installing PostgreSQL software is nothing but compiling and running all the C-Programs in your source code.

To work with PostgreSQL internals it is highly recommended to learn the basics of C programming.

How to create and compile a C Program on Linux

Create a C program called first.c

[root@prim final]# cat first.c #include<stdio.h> int main(void) { printf("Hello! This is a test prgoram.\n"); }

To compile this program, enter:

PostgreSQL is an open-source database management system. It is a great way to learn to program, design and debug.

One of the main features of PostgreSQL is Extensions.

Extensions of PostgreSQL can be an as small extension as pg_fincore, used to understand the OS cache of your PostgreSQL pages to the large projects like PostGIS and Citus data.

The PostgreSQL extension is a piece of script or code which enhances the functionality of your PostgreSQL server.

In this post, we are going to understand…

PostgreSQL Vacuum is a vast subject. There are many things that can be discussed in vacuuming. But in this post, I am going to touch something interesting.

Before we begin, I have a question for you.

Is vacuum table_name releases space to disk?

And if your answer is NO, then you are wrong.

The answer is MAYBE (terms and conditions apply).

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In the context of transaction processing, Isolation plays a significant role.

Isolation is the property that controls how and when changes are made and when they must be visible to each other, users, and systems.

PostgreSQL achieves Isolation by multi-version concurrency control architecture.

Multi-version concurrency control is a technique to allow multiple sessions to access the same record concurrently, i.e., while session A is updating a record, session B can still access the record.

But,

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PostgreSQL Online Survey – Everything you need to know how people are using PostgreSQL

In this survey, I just wanted to understand how people are using PostgreSQL and wanted to give the information to the community

What does the below code snippet really mean in PostgreSQL while installing software?

./configure
make
make install

We will understand it in this post.

PostgreSQL is written in C, so installing PostgreSQL software is nothing but compiling and running all the C-Programs in your source code.

We will do that with an example.,

How to compile and run a C program in Linux?

1. Create a program called first.c

[postgres@stagdb pg_dynshmem]$ ls -lrt total 8 -rw------- 1 postgres postgres 6928 Feb 17 16:36 mmap.2106693104 [postgres@stagdb pg_dynshmem]$ pwd /u01/pgsql/10/pg_dynshmem

There is a file in pg_dynshmem sub-directory under PostgreSQL data directory.

• But what is that file?

The answer is here,

What happens when you execute a transaction in PostgreSQL?

The block will be fetched to shared buffers, executed there and upon commit, the dirty buffer will leave to disk again, but how does that happen?

The answer is here.

PostgreSQL is an ORDBMS software, Let’s ignore O for time being (we will have a separate post on O alone), as an RDBMS, PostgreSQL has to support ACID properties (we will have a seperate post to discuss ACID properties), but for now,

For example.,

Drop Database in PostgreSQL 13

Warning: The information provided here is based on unsupported development version of PostgreSQL 13.

DROP DATABASE drops a database. It removes the catalog entries for the database and deletes the directory containing the data. It can only be executed by the database owner. It cannot be executed while you are connected to the target database.

Here, from PostgreSQL v13 on wards you have an option to drop database forcefully even if an external session is connected.

Media failure is one of the crucial things that the database administrator should be aware of. Media failure is nothing but a physical problem reading or writing to files on the storage medium.

A typical example of media failure is a disk head crash, which causes the loss of all files on a disk drive. All files associated with a database are vulnerable to a disk crash, including datafiles, wal files, and control files.

In this post we are going to understand PostgreSQL Page Layout in detail.

Bonus is coming up towards the end!!

Do I have ORACLE’s PCTFREE and PCTUSED kind of mechanism in PostgreSQL?

PostgreSQL Page Layout

Each data file in PostgreSQL is divided into PostgreSQL disk blocks of 8 Kb each.The blocks are numbered sequentially, 0 to 0xFFFFFFFE. A PostgreSQL disk page is a memory version of a PostgreSQL disk block.

Below image depicts the page format used within PostgreSQL tables and indexes.

This post answers the following question with comprehensive details.

How much memory you need to give to your shared buffers in PostgreSQL and why?

Bonus!! Why my RDS postgreSQL shared buffers uses 25% of system RAM where as Aurora’s shared buffers is 75%?

The answer is here.

Understanding OS Cache vs Shared Buffers in PostgreSQL

Before we begin, I have a question for you.

what is the role of BGWriter in PostgreSQL?