Transaction IDs (XID) have been something of a thorn in Postgres’ side since the dawn of time. On one hand, they’re necessary to differentiate tuple visibility between past, present, and concurrent transactions. On the other hand, the counter that stores it is only 32-bits, meaning it’s possible to eventually overflow without some kind of intervention. […]
Postgres is the coolest database – Reason #3: No vendor lock-in
/2 Comments/in Umair's PlanetPostgreSQL /by Umair ShahidYou buy a cool new technology for your organization in order to cut operational costs. It works really well for you, and incrementally, your entire business starts to rely on this tech for its day to day operations. You have successfully made it an essential component of your business. There are some issues now and […]
Webinar: Security and Compliance with PostgreSQL [Follow Up]
/0 Comments/in PostgreSQL, Webinars /by Bilal IbrarFor businesses handling personal data, security of their database is a serious matter. Faced with an increasing number of attacks, an organization must improve their security and compliance policies, improve their database infrastructure and ensure all proper security protocols are in place.
Postgres is the coolest database – Reason #2: The License
/0 Comments/in PostgreSQL, Umair's PlanetPostgreSQL /by Umair ShahidLegal documents = SCARY!! That’s the typical equation, and it’s true – except when it comes to PostgreSQL. Let me explain… I have been told by both prospects and clients, that when they sit down to negotiate terms with Oracle, they are faced with more lawyers than they have engineers. No wonder one shudders at […]
PG Phriday: Around the World in Two Billion Transactions
/0 Comments/in Shaun's PlanetPostgreSQL /by Shaun ThomasTransaction IDs (XID) have been something of a thorn in Postgres’ side since the dawn of time. On one hand, they’re necessary to differentiate tuple visibility between past, present, and concurrent transactions. On the other hand, the counter that stores it is only 32-bits, meaning it’s possible to eventually overflow without some kind of intervention. […]
Optimizing storage of small tables in PostgreSQL 12
/0 Comments/in John’s PlanetPostgreSQL /by John NaylorThe problem If your database has a large number of small tables, you likely have a lot of wasted space. To demonstrate this, let’s create a table with a single record: create table foo (str text); insert into foo values (‘a’); VACUUM foo; Now let’s find out the path of the file containing our data, […]
Buildfarm RSS feed
/0 Comments/in Andrew's PlanetPostgreSQL /by Andrew DunstanIf you’ve visited almost any web page on the PostgreSQL Build Farm server in the last few days you might have noticed that it is sporting a new RSS feed, of changes in status. This is similar to the information on the buildfarm-status-green-chgs mailing list, except that it has all status changes, not just to […]
Postgres is the coolest database – Reason #1: Developers love it!
/2 Comments/in PostgreSQL, Umair's PlanetPostgreSQL /by Umair ShahidPostgreSQL has been my livelihood since 2004 – so I am naturally biased in its favor. I think it is the coolest piece of software on the planet, and I am not alone. DB-Engines See those 2 badges up there? That’s 2 years in a row. DB-Engines monitors a total of 343 databases and their […]
I am Developer! (And You Can Too!)
/0 Comments/in Shaun's PlanetPostgreSQL /by Shaun ThomasA while back, 2ndQuadrant notified a few of us that we should get more involved in Postgres Development in some capacity. Being as I’ve essentially fallen off the map in corresponding with the mailing lists in general, it would be a good way to get back into the habit. But wait! Don’t we want more […]
PostgreSQL Buildfarm Client Release 10
/0 Comments/in Andrew's PlanetPostgreSQL /by Andrew DunstanAnnouncing Release 10 of the PostgreSQL Buildfarm client Principal feature: support for non-standard repositories: support multi-element branch names, such as “dev/featurename” or “bug/ticket_number/branchname” provide a get_branches() method in SCM module support regular expression branches of interest. This is matched against the list of available branches prune branches when doing git fetch. This feature and some […]
Postgres-XL and global MVCC
/0 Comments/in 2ndQuadrant, Koichi’s PlanetPostgreSQL, Postgres-XL /by Koichi SuzukiBack to the PG I’m very excited to become a 2ndQuadrant member. I was involved in PostgreSQL activities in NTT group (Japanese leading ICT company, see here and here), including log shipping replication and PostgreSQL scale out solution as PostgresXC and PostgresXL. At NTT I had several chances to work very closely with 2ndQuadrant. After three years involvement in deep […]