By Kaarel Moppel – Auto-rebuild bloated tables with pg_squeeze: One of the few areas where out-of-the-box functionality by PostgreSQL is not 100% satisfying, is the “bloat problem”. Combating bloat, or just trying to ensure that your table data is physically ordered according to some column(s) (a.k.a. clustering) required accepting some inconvenient compromises until now. Extended […]

Last week a new PostgreSQL major version with the number 9.6 was released and I already covered my favorite parts from the official release notes from DBA’s point of view in a blogpost here. Now I would like to look at the same list of changes from a different angle, transforming into a database developer […]

Last week a new PostgreSQL major version with the number 9.6 was released! The announcement, release notes and the official “What’s new” overview can be found here, here and here – it’s highly recommended for reading, so check them out. But as always, there’s also a slew of blog-posts from exited members of the global […]

When doing PostgreSQL consulting the other day, the talk went to the topic of connection pools – namely what approaches and products are commonly used and perform well? The topic is pretty wide in itself but mostly well-known for old-timers. Nevertheless it is worth a small write up on basic concepts and a small comparison […]