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    Month: January 2021

    29.01.2021 | Hans-Jürgen Schönig

    Monitoring replication: pg_stat_replication

    PostgreSQL replication (synchronous and asynchronous replication) is one of the most widespread features in the database community. Nowadays, people are building high-availability clusters or use replication to create read-only replicas to spread out the workload. What is important to note here is that if you are using replication, you must make sure that your clusters […]

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    26.01.2021 | Kaarel Moppel

    Postgres scaling advice for 2021

    So, you’re building the next unicorn startup and are thinking feverishly about a future-proof PostgreSQL architecture to house your bytes? My advice here, having seen dozens of hopelessly over-engineered / oversized solutions as a database consultant over the last 5 years, is short and blunt: Don’t overthink, and keep it simple on the database side! […]

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    21.01.2021 | Hans-Jürgen Schönig

    Golden Proportions in PostgreSQL

    As CYBERTEC keeps expanding, we need a lot more office space than we previously did. Right now, we have a solution in the works: a new office building. We wanted something beautiful, so we started to dig into mathematical proportions to achieve a reasonable level of beauty. We hoped to make the building not just […]

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    19.01.2021 | Kaarel Moppel

    Tips and tricks to kick-start the Postgres year 2021

    I decided to start out this year by looking into my notes from last year and extracting from them a small set of Postgres tips for you. This might not be, strictly speaking, fresh news… but I guess the average RAM of tech workers is about 64KB or so nowadays, so some repetition might not […]

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    12.01.2021 | Hans-Jürgen Schönig

    PostgreSQL: int4 vs. float4 vs. numeric

    Data types are an important topic in any relational database. PostgreSQL offers many different types, but not all of them are created equal. Depending on what you are trying to achieve, different column types might be necessary. This post will focus on three important ones: the integer, float and numeric types. Recently, we have seen […]

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