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 […]

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) […]

Soon it’s that time of the year again – basically a 2nd Christmas for followers of the “blue elephant cult” if you will :). I’m, of course, referring to the upcoming release of the next PostgreSQL major version, v12. So I thought it’s about time to go over some basics on upgrading to newer major […]

Last week the first release candidate of the upcoming Postgres version 11 was released, stating that everything is going more or less as planned – great news! The 11 release is promising a lot of very cool stuff as usual, including – better partitioning, more parallezation and JIT capabilities (which are not activated by default […]