Tuning max_connections in PostgreSQL
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Laurenz Albe |
04.2020 (Updated 2023-02-22) In my daily work, I see many databases with a bad setting for max_connections. There is little […]
Embedded SQL in C for PostgreSQL with ecpg
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Laurenz Albe |
03.2020 Embedded SQL is by no means a new feature — in fact it is so old-fashioned that many people […]
Subtransactions and performance in PostgreSQL
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Laurenz Albe |
03.2020 (Last updated on 2023-01-24) Recently, while troubleshooting PostgreSQL performance problems, I ran into problems with subtransactions twice. So I […]
recovery.conf is gone in PostgreSQL v12
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Laurenz Albe |
12.2019 The biggest change in PostgreSQL v12 from the viewpoint of backward compatibility is that recovery.conf has been absorbed into […]
B-tree index improvements in PostgreSQL v12
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Laurenz Albe |
11.2019 If you thought that the B-tree index is a technology that was perfected in the 1980s, you are mostly […]
Never lose a PostgreSQL transaction with pg_receivewal
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Laurenz Albe |
10.2019 “Durability”, the D of ACID, demands that a committed database transaction remains committed, no matter what. For normal […]
Manage Linux control groups in PostgreSQL with pg_cgroups
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Laurenz Albe |
09.2019(This article and the extension pg_cgroups was written for cgroups v1. The extension won't work with cgroups v2, but the […]
Tracking view dependencies in PostgreSQL
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Laurenz Albe |
09.2019 We all know that in PostgreSQL we cannot drop an object if there are view dependencies on it: [crayon-683bc9c0c8418078534591/] […]
ICU collations against PostgreSQL data corruption
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Laurenz Albe |
07.2019 (Updated 2024-09-29) This article was prompted by version 2.28 of the GNU C library, which changed the definition of […]
Abusing SECURITY DEFINER functions in PostgreSQL
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Laurenz Albe |
05.2019UPDATED August 2023: Functions defined as SECURITY DEFINER are a powerful, but dangerous tool in PostgreSQL. The documentation warns of […]
