We are thrilled to announce that the FINAL version of pgwatch2 v1.9 is now ready for your production environment! pgwatch provides a secure, open-source, flexible, self-contained PostgreSQL metrics monitoring/dashboarding solution. pgwatch2 v1.9 supports monitoring PG versions 9.0 to 14 out of the box. Upgrade, or install pgwatch today to see how fantastic it really is. […]

MobilityDB is on the move Since my last article about MobilityDB, the overall project has further developed and improved. This is a very good reason to invest some time and showcase MobilityDB’s rich feature stack by analyzing historical flight data from OpenSky-Network, a non-profit organisation which has been collecting air traffic surveillance data since 2013. […]

Spot a missing PostgreSQL index Missing indexes are a key ingredient if you are looking for a perfect recipe to ruin performance in the most efficient way possible. 🙂  However, if you want to ensure that your database performs well and if you are generally not in favor of user complaints – better watch out […]

Understanding Multiranges Range types have been around in PostgreSQL for quite some time and are successfully used by developers to store various kinds of intervals with upper and lower bounds. However, in PostgreSQL 14 a major new feature has been added to the database which makes this feature even more powerful: multiranges. To help you […]

date_bin and timestamps in PostgreSQL Date and time are relevant to pretty much every PostgreSQL application. A new function was added to PostgreSQL 14 to solve a problem which has caused challenges for many users out there over the years: How can we map timestamps to time bins? The function is called date_bin. What people […]