Partial aggregation: The beautiful way
Partial aggregation: Functions such as min, max, count, sum, avg and so on are used in virtually every application. Find out more.
Managing backup speed with pg_basebackup
How to adjust backup speed when using pg_basebackup in PostgreSQL. What if the I/O capacity of servers is low & network bandwidth is large?
Analytics: Lagging entire rows
There is a PostgreSQL feature in the area of analytics which is not widely known: the power to use composite data types along with analytics.
walbouncer: Filtering the transaction log
You might not want to replicate all data to your standbys. walbouncer can filter the transaction log, & replicate only the data needed.
Killing proper indexing: A neat idea
There are a couple of ways to kill indexing entirely. One of this ways is to apply functions or expressions. Read out in our blog.
Next stop: Joining 1 million tables
This week I started my preparations for one of my talks in Madrid. The topic is: "Joining 1 million tables". […]
Checking per-memory context memory consumption
Internally PostgreSQL makes use of so called “memory contexts”. What is the idea and what are the advantages? Find out here.
Shrink the storage footprint of PostgreSQL data
Keep the order of your columns in mind to unleash optimization potentials and reduce the table size in your PostgreSQL database.
pg_resetxlog: renamed to pg_resetwal
pg_resetxlog was formerly a feature of PostgreSQL. This has been renamed to pg_resetwal, see the update in the blog.
Out of plain curiosity I decided to start a little analysis regarding the code size of the PostgreSQL project over time.
