Bringing together some of the world's top PostgreSQL experts.
During the Postgres Open 2017 conference in San Francisco, someone came to the 2ndQuadrant booth and struck up a conversation with me. During our shameless geeking out over database mechanics, he asked me if pglogical supported the new Postgres 10 partitions. Given my noted expertise in all things Postgres, I answered in the appropriate manner: […]
One of the handy things Oracle does with dates is allow manipulation with standard arithmetic. Want tomorrow's date? Add one. Want a week ago? Subtract seven. Postgres does something close with its INTERVAL syntax, under the explanation that we don't necessarily want to make assumptions about what is being added to a date or timestamp. […]
For a long time, the Postgres query planner has sported a huge blinking neon blind-spot that frustrated and enraged DBAs throughout the universe to a level just shy of murderous frenzy. How is this even possible? What terrible lurking horror could elicit such a visceral response from probably the most boring and straight-laced people ever […]
One of the coolest things about Postgres functions is that they can return rows as if they were a table. Not only is it possible, but creating a set-returning function in Postgres is almost frighteningly trivial when compared to other database engines. In fact, some Oracle users are probably rolling their eyes and muttering “Just […]
Testing within the context of a database can sometimes seem a bit overwhelming. Not only is it necessary to create a reasonable set of test data to bootstrap multiple tables, but we need some reliable invocation system to compare query, view, and function output to expected results. And that is no small feat. For a […]
With the christening of PG Phriday at its new location, it’s only fitting that we revisit a frequent boon and bane of organized storage: partitioning. When volume and scale reach a certain point that the very laws of physics become a barrier to efficiency, partitions are a crucial tool to escape the otherwise inevitable pile […]
