Some weeks ago, in the light of PostgreSQL v12 release, I wrote a general overview on various major version upgrade methods and benefits of upgrading in general – so if upgrading is a new thing for you I’d recommend to read that posting first. But this time I’m concentrating on the newest (available since v10) […]

In order to prepare for the start of training season (you can see our “stock” training offerings here by the way), I’ve updated our small “Postgres features showcase” project, and thought I’d echo it out too. Main changes – coverage on some features of the current v11 release and also from the upcoming v12. Short […]

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 […]

Having recently witnessed quite an ingenious hack to implement some good old “println” style development debugging from stored procedures into a file, it prompted me to post knowledge to the Interwebs on two other ways how such a goal can be implemented more transparently. Also, with help of some other good old legacy technology in […]

Beginning of the year happens to be luckily somewhat slow at customers, so last couple of weeks I’ve had the chance to work on our Open Source PostgreSQL monitoring tool called pgwatch2 and implement some stuff that was in the queue. Changes include only a couple of fixes and a lot of new features… so […]