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Laurenz Albe

Senior Consultant & Support Engineer
Laurenz Albe is a senior consultant and support engineer at CYBERTEC. He has been working with and contributing to PostgreSQL since 2006, has written patches for core, and wrote oracle_fdw. He holds a Master's degree in Mathematics from the University of Vienna and a Master's in Computer Science from the Technical University of Vienna. In his spare time he enjoys reading to his children and pondering the roots of language.
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Articles by Laurenz Albe

Pipeline mode for better PostgreSQL performance on slow networks

by Laurenz Albe | 03.2022
  It is known that high network latency is bad for database performance. PostgreSQL v14 has introduced “pipeline mode” for […]

Automatic partition creation in PostgreSQL

by Laurenz Albe | 02.2022
  Table partitioning is one of the best-liked features out of the more recent PostgreSQL developments. However, there is no […]

Entity-attribute-value (EAV) design in PostgreSQL - don't do it!

by Laurenz Albe | 11.2021
  Customers have often asked me what I think of “Entity-attribute-value” (EAV) design. So I thought it would be a […]

TCP keepalive for a better PostgreSQL experience

by Laurenz Albe | 10.2021
  (Updated 2023-06-22) If you've heard about TCP keepalive but aren't sure what that is, read on. If you've ever […]

WITH HOLD cursors and transactions in PostgreSQL

by Laurenz Albe | 10.2021
  Both cursors and transactions are basic ingredients for developing a database application. This article describes how cursors and transactions […]

Gaps in sequences in PostgreSQL

by Laurenz Albe | 09.2021
  Most database tables have an artificial numeric primary key, and that number is usually generated automatically using a sequence. […]

JSON in PostgreSQL: how to use it right

by Laurenz Albe | 09.2021
  The comprehensive JSON support in PostgreSQL is one of its best-loved features. Many people – particularly those with a […]

Index bloat reduced in PostgreSQL v14

by Laurenz Albe | 09.2021
  PostgreSQL v12 brought more efficient storage for indexes, and v13 improved that even more by adding deduplication of index […]

From MD5 to scram-sha-256 in PostgreSQL

by Laurenz Albe | 06.2021
  Since v10, PostgreSQL has provided support for scram-sha-256 for password hashing and authentication. This article describes how you can […]

About cross join in PostgreSQL

by Laurenz Albe | 06.2021
  For many people, “cross join” is something to be afraid of. They remember the time when they forgot the […]
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