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The news today is that GQL:2024, the first version of the GQL standard, has been published by ISO. GQL is a new language for graph databases, like SQL is for relational databases.

Here is the link to it on the ISO web site:

• ISO/IEC 39075:2024

This is the culmination of work that has been going on formally within ISO since 2019 and for several years more before that in preparation. (There was even a manifesto! How can you go wrong?)

I won’t be able to attend Magnus’ talk at PG Day Chicago because it is scheduled at the same time as my talk, but fortunately, I attended his talk at SCaLe. There are several features I am really excited about, and I can’t wait to start using them!

This is the second article in a series that explores advanced strategies for scaling PostgreSQL databases in Kubernetes with the help of CloudNativePG. This article focuses on horizontal table partitioning and tablespaces and how they can be used to manage large datasets. By partitioning tables based on specific criteria and optimising storage with tablespaces, PostgreSQL users can achieve better scalability and performance in cloud-native environments, just like they could in traditional VMs or bare metal deployments.

This post looks at some interesting new capabilities managing Partitioned Tables coming in PostgreSQL 17, expected for release Fall 2024. The current major version is 16.

Current Table Partition Commands

Prior to Version 17, workflow options for partition management are limited to creating, attaching, and detaching partitions.

Once we’ve designed our partition structure, we couldn’t redesign it in place.

Why do we need vector databases? The proliferation of embeddings immediately brought forth the need to efficiently store, index, and search these arrays of floats. However, these steps are just a small piece of the overall technology stack required to make use of embeddings. The task of transforming source data to embeddings and the serving of the transformer models that make this happen is often left as a task to the application developer. If that developer is part of a large organization, they might have a machine learning or data engineering team to help them.

Coming up this week: the fourth installment of the Postgres extension ecosystem mini-summit. The topic: Trusted Language Extensions, a.k.a. TLEs.

Any database engine, including PostgreSQL, requires some routine maintenance to ensure optimal performance. Especially when there are massive delete or purge operations to delete rows from a Table, the fragmentation builds up within a table. Reclaim this fragmented space from disk requires a table to be rebuilt. At HexaCluster, we had many Customers asking us […]

Toulouse, 15 April 2024

The upcoming PostgreSQL 17 will ship with improved query cancellation capabilities, as part of the libpq, and so will the upcoming release of Psycopg version 3.2.

About a month ago, Alvaro Herrera committed the following patch to PostgreSQL:

A new feature to run a single script at the very beginning of the cluster lifecycle.

pgenv: run once scripts

Today pgenv got a new release that provides a simple, but quite useful, feature: the capability to run a custom script the first time the instance is started.

Recently I joined Ry Walker, CEO of Tembo, as a guest on the Hacking Postgres podcast.

Hacking Postgres has had a lot of great Postgres contributors as guests on the show, so I was honored to be a part of it being that my contributions are more in the form of developer education and advocacy.

Ry asked me about when I got started with PostgreSQL and what my role looks like today.

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I just got the coin in the mail!

PostgreSQL 16 Coin

I just received in the mail the PostgreSQL 16 Coin with a great artwork!

I’m really happy to be part of this great community!

Have you ever wanted to use a non-superuser role in a Postgres database to perform actions that are normally restricted? Even something as simple as reading from the pg_stat_activity view requires special permissions to view the query column because it could contain sensitive information.

This is not the usual Waiting for post, but something should be said. Back in March/April of 2022 Andres Dunstan committed a series of patches that added support for lots of really interesting features from SQL/JSON standard. While I'm not avid user of json in database, I was very, very happy. Wrote couple of blogposts … Continue reading "Waiting for …: SQL/JSON is coming back. Hopefully."

Databases Cursors are one of the key components of development. We have been using them for traversing query results for processing based on business logic or functionality. In Code Conversion, Cursor code always needs to be ported either from PL\SQL or TSQL to Pl\pgSQL, and some special considerations need to be incorporated as best practices to avoid surprises or functionality failures.