Patroni has dramatically simplified the setup of the PostgreSQL High-Availability cluster. Personally I consider Patroni to be by far the best tool out there to cluster PostgreSQL and to ensure HA in the most reliable and straightforward way possible. The main questions asked by many people are: How can you make a PostgreSQL cluster transparent? […]

I recently had an interesting support case that shows how the cause of a problem can sometimes be where you would least suspect it. Note: the problem I describe in this article can only occur in PostgreSQL v14 and below, since the statistics collector has been rewritten in v15. About table bloat After an UPDATE […]