Sometimes it happens that you reach a point where you know that things cannot be any more simplistic than they are. I think in PostgreSQL 9.3 we will pretty much have reached this point when we want to fire up a simple replica. Back in the old times you had to call pg_start_backup, rsync the […]

The optimizer uses several parameters to optimize queries. Those parameters have been constant for many years in the past. This was fine for most users. Recently we have seen a couple of systems which were already fully based on SSD disks. SSDs have a nice advantage over traditional disks: Random disk access is not a […]