© Laurenz Albe 2019 The biggest change in PostgreSQL v12 from the viewpoint of backward compatibility is that recovery.conf has been absorbed into postgresql.conf. This article describes the changes and how you can adapt to them. Getting rid of recovery.conf Up to now, the presence of the file recovery.conf was the trigger for PostgreSQL to […]

Version 12 of PostgreSQL is not exactly fresh out of the oven, as the first minor release was already announced. However, I think it’s fair to say that this version can be still considered fresh for most users, and surely only a small percentage of users has upgraded. So I think it makes sense to […]

Image © Laurenz Albe 2019 If you thought that the B-tree index is a technology that was perfected in the 1980s, you are mostly right. But there is still room for improvement, so PostgreSQL v12 (in the tradition of v11) has added some new features in this field. Thanks, Peter Geoghegan! In this article, I […]

  With the latest major version freshly released, it’s again time to gauge its performance. I’ve already been doing this for years, and I have my scripts ready, so it’s not too much work for me – but rather, for the machines. The v12 release, as always, adds quite a lot of nice stuff. Some […]