(Updated 2024-12-23) Among the many index types in PostgreSQL, the hash index is the most widely ignored. This came home […]
Kill long running queries in PostgreSQL
How to detect and terminate long running queries in PostgreSQL using two different methods. Also: How to automatically kill slow queries.
pg_stat_io and PostgreSQL 16 performance
How to use pg_stat_io for true debugging power in PostgreSQL v16. Offers deep insights into database I/O behavior & performance.
Monitoring Performance for PostgreSQL with Citus
Monitoring PostgreSQL with Citus: how to leverage monitoring to optimize PostgreSQL + Citus distributed database performance.
Monitoring PostgreSQL replication
How to monitor replication lag in PostgreSQL? What is replication lag? And how to best go about monitoring PostgreSQL replication in general?
Citus: Sharding your first table
Here’s how to shard a table from scratch with Citus. Scale PostgreSQL DBs using a sharding approach. How to run a Citus Docker container.
Indexing "LIKE" in PostgreSQL and Oracle
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Laurenz Albe |
08.2023© Laurenz Albe 2023 Unless you use the binary collation, creating a b-tree index to support a LIKE condition in […]
Bulk load performance in PostgreSQL
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Laurenz Albe |
08.2023 There are several techniques to bulk load data into PostgreSQL. I decided to compare their performance in a simple […]
Killing performance with PostgreSQL partitioning
Partitioning is not without risk. It might help to handle large quantities of data, but it can also have downsides - learn how to it.
Reproducible builds: a PostgreSQL query optimization example
This post shows how to optimize a slow query that came out of the Reproducible Builds project. The Reproducible Builds […]
