In another blog post, I described how Linux control groups work and how they are useful for PostgreSQL. Here I will present my little PostgreSQL plugin pg_cgroups which makes this simple to handle for the DBA. What is pg_cgroups good for? If you have a machine dedicated to a single PostgreSQL cluster, you normally […]

The above-mentioned PostgreSQL server configuration parameter was introduced already some time ago, in version 9.6, but has been flying under the radar so to say and had not caught my attention previously. Until I recently was pasted (not being on Twitter) a tweet from one of the Postgres core developers Andres Freund, that basically said […]