Just as last year was ending, one of our long-time customers came to us because one of their long-existing PostgreSQL queries involving PostGIS geometry calculations was much slower for specific values. We researched the problem and found out how to solve it; read on! What we found as the cause of the problem will surprise […]
I have written about managing a PostgreSQL commitfest before. During the PostgreSQL 13 development cycle, I did it again. This time I used a different strategy, mostly because I felt that there was excessive accumulation of very old patches that had received insufficient attention. So apart from bugfixes (which are always special cases), I focused […]
Now that PostgreSQL 12 is out, we consider foreign keys to be fully compatible with partitioned tables. You can have a partitioned table on either side of a foreign key constraint, and everything will work correctly. Why do I point this out? Two reasons: first, when partitioned tables were first introduced in PostgreSQL 10, they […]
We seldom credit patch reviewers. I decided to pay a little homage to those silent heroes for a few of them: here’s the list of people who were credited as having reviewed the patches mentioned in my previous article for PostgreSQL 11. The number in front is the number of times they were credited as reviewers. […]
A partitioning system in PostgreSQL was first added in PostgreSQL 8.1 by 2ndQuadrant founder Simon Riggs. It was based on relation inheritance and used a novel technique to exclude tables from being scanned by a query, called “constraint exclusion”. While it was a huge step forward at the time, it is nowadays seen as cumbersome […]
I spent a couple of days in São Paulo, Brazil last week, for the top-notch PGConf.Brazil 2018 experience. This year I gave a talk about improvements in the declarative partitioning area in the upcoming PostgreSQL 11 release — a huge step forward from what PostgreSQL 10 offers. We have some new features, some DDL handling […]
I just committed a patch by Pavel Stěhule that adds the XMLTABLE functionality to PostgreSQL 10. XMLTABLE is a very useful feature dictated by the SQL/XML standard, that lets you turn your XML data into relational form, so that you can mix it with the rest of your relational data. This feature has many uses; keep reading for […]
Over at pgsql-general, Bráulio Bhavamitra asks: I wonder if there is any plans to move postgresql entirely to a columnar store (or at least make it an option), maybe for version 10? This is a pretty interesting question. Completely replacing the current row-based store wouldn’t be a good idea: it has served us extremely well […]
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Many years ago, Michelle Caise submitted a patch to generate code coverage reports for the PostgreSQL code base, based on the lcov utility. Although I cannot find any record of an actual patch in the mailing list archives, Peter Eisentraut committed it some time later, and applied further refinements later. Today I’m announcing a new […]
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