Introduction As a senior database consultant and developer at CYBERTEC PostgreSQL International, I recently enjoyed presenting at PGDay Belgium 2023 […]
CLUSTER is sometimes the last resort to squeeze performance out of an index scan. Normally, you have to repeat CLUSTER […]
What is a schema in PostgreSQL? Why do we need a schema and how can schemas be used to make your life easier? Let's find out.
(Inscription seen on a T-shirt) It's annoying to get error messages caused by encoding problems. But it is more annoying […]
When talking to customers, sometimes I get the question: How should PostgreSQL installations deal with huge pages and large memory […]
Many people have heard that ALTER DEFAULT PRIVILEGES makes it easy to allow other users access to tables. But […]
Some time ago, I presented a typical approach to upgrade PostGIS under Ubuntu. Please take a look at my previous […]
Different from many other database systems, PostgreSQL does not support query hints. That makes it difficult to force the […]
This is a short war story from a customer problem. It serves as a warning that there are special […]
LZ4 and ZSTD pg_dump compression I wrote a "pg_dump compression specifications in PostgreSQL 16" post a while ago. Frankly speaking, […]
SQL and numeric constants NEW in PostgreSQL 16 - support for underscores in integer and numeric constants! I already wrote […]
A while ago, I wrote about how difficult it is to get an execution plan for a parameterized query. […]
