What hot_standby_feedback in PostgreSQL really does
How to avoid streaming replication conflicts with hot_standby_feedback and VACUUM. Improve your replication setup and prevent failure.
A beginners guide to PostgreSQL's UPDATE and autovacuum
This article is a beginners guide about how PostgreSQL handles UPDATEs, about VACUUM as well as autovacuum and it's limitations.
Adding an index can decrease SELECT performance
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Laurenz Albe |
06.2018 We all know that you have to pay a price for a new index you create — data modifying […]
PostgreSQL: Detecting periods of activity in a timeseries
PostgreSQL is a nice tool to handle activity in a timeseries. One of the more challenging tasks is to detect periods of constant activity.
CREATE VIEW vs ALTER TABLE in PostgreSQL
A view is a virtual table based on a SQL statement. What happens if the data structure of the underlying PostgreSQL table changes?
Mapping Oracle datatypes to PostgreSQL
How to map Oracle datatypes to PostgreSQL in the best way - this post helps you by making your migration to PostgreSQL as simple as possible.
Building PostgreSQL with MSYS2 and MinGW under Windows
In this blog you will learn how to build PostgreSQL from sources under Windows using MSYS2 and MinGW-64 in easy steps.
PostgreSQL: Sharing data across function calls
Recently I did some PostgreSQL consulting in the Berlin area (Germany) when I stumbled over an interesting request: How can […]
ora_migrator: migration from Oracle to PostgreSQL
ora_migrator is a migration tool, which makes migration as simple as possible: It only takes a single SQL statement to migrate a database.
xmax is a PostgreSQL system column that is used to implement Multiversion Concurrency Control (MVCC). The documentation is somewhat terse: […]
