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Speeding up index creation in PostgreSQL

by Hans-Jürgen Schönig | 07.2024

Indexes are, by far, the most feature related to performance provided by every general purpose relational database. Without indexes, there […]

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Keyset pagination with descending order

by Laurenz Albe | 07.2024

Keyset pagination is the most performant way to retrieve a large result set page by page. However, the neat trick […]

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Using AI to generate data structures for PostgreSQL

by Hans-Jürgen Schönig | 07.2024

Artificial Intelligence is the motto of the day. Everybody is talking about it, everybody seems to know what it means […]

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Making the PostgreSQL visibility map visible

by Laurenz Albe | 06.2024

Enough has been written about the connection between VACUUM, the visibility map and index-only scans in PostgreSQL. But recently I demonstrated index-only scans […]

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From Microsoft SQL server to PostGIS

by Florian Nadler | 06.2024

PostGIS is getting more and more popular and for good reasons. It benefits from a great community and offers a […]

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Foreign keys in PostgreSQL: Circular dependencies

by Hans-Jürgen Schönig | 06.2024

Relational databases provide one very essential functionality which is key to integrity, data quality and consistency: foreign keys. If you […]

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Why do I have a slow COMMIT in PostgreSQL?

by Laurenz Albe | 05.2024

Sometimes one of our customers looks at the most time consuming statements in a database (either with pg_stat_statements or […]

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Git Filters

by Christoph Berg | 05.2024

Nowadays, most Debian packages are maintained in Git repositories, with the majority hosted on Debian's GitLab instance at salsa.debian.org.Debian is […]

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