PostgreSQL Archives - 2ndQuadrant

Full-text search since PostgreSQL 8.3

November 5, 2020/0 Comments/in 2ndQuadrant, PostgreSQL, Tomas' PlanetPostgreSQL /by Tomas Vondra

Welcome to the third – and last – part of this blog series, exploring how the PostgreSQL performance evolved over the years. The first part looked at OLTP workloads, represented by pgbench tests. The second part looked at analytical / BI queries, using a subset of the traditional TPC-H benchmark (essentially a portion of the […]

TPC-H performance since PostgreSQL 8.3

October 22, 2020/0 Comments/in 2ndQuadrant, PostgreSQL, Tomas' PlanetPostgreSQL /by Tomas Vondra

In the first part of this blog series, I’ve presented a couple of benchmark results showing how PostgreSQL OLTP performance changed since 8.3, released in 2008. In this part I plan to do the same thing but for analytical / BI queries, processing large amounts of data. There’s a number of industry benchmarks for testing […]

OLTP performance since PostgreSQL 8.3

October 8, 2020/5 Comments/in PostgreSQL, Tomas' PlanetPostgreSQL /by Tomas Vondra

A couple years ago (at the pgconf.eu 2014 in Madrid) I presented a talk called “Performance Archaeology” which showed how performance changed in recent PostgreSQL releases. I did that talk as I think the long-term view is interesting and may give us insights that may be very valuable. For people who actually work on PostgreSQL […]

How EDB Became the Leader in the Postgres Market

September 30, 2020/1 Comment/in PostgreSQL /by Ed Boyajian

I’m delighted to share that EDB has acquired 2ndQuadrant, a global Postgres solutions and tools company. Our combined team of experts will drive Postgres innovation and growth everywhere, making EDB the largest dedicated provider of Postgres products and solutions worldwide, with more customers than any other Postgres company. Why now? Postgres is exploding in popularity […]

PostgreSQL VACUUM and ANALYZE Best Practice Tips

September 30, 2020/3 Comments/in 2ndQuadrant, PostgreSQL, PostgreSQL 13, Sadeq's PlanetPostgreSQL /by 2ndQuadrant Press

VACUUM and ANALYZE are the two most important PostgreSQL database maintenance operations. A vacuum is used for recovering space occupied by “dead tuples” in a table. A dead tuple is created when a record is either deleted or updated (a delete followed by an insert). PostgreSQL doesn’t physically remove the old row from the table […]

PostgreSQL 13: LIMIT … WITH TIES

September 16, 2020/4 Comments/in 2ndQuadrant, Alvaro's PlanetPostgreSQL, PostgreSQL 13 /by Álvaro Herrera

A simple description of the new WITH TIES standard feature in PostgreSQL 13.

7 Best Practice Tips for PostgreSQL Bulk Data Loading

September 15, 2020/3 Comments/in PostgreSQL, PostgreSQL 13, Sadeq's PlanetPostgreSQL /by 2ndQuadrant Press

Sometimes, PostgreSQL databases need to import large quantities of data in a single or a minimal number of steps. This process can be sometimes unacceptably slow. In this article, we will cover some best practice tips for bulk importing data into PostgreSQL databases.

How to Get the Best Out of PostgreSQL Logs

September 3, 2020/3 Comments/in 2ndQuadrant, PostgreSQL, PostgreSQL 13, Sadeq's PlanetPostgreSQL /by 2ndQuadrant Press

Learn how to effectively configure PostgreSQL log management for troubleshooting performance problems.

Oracle to PostgreSQL — Cursors and ltrees

September 2, 2020/0 Comments/in 2ndQuadrant, Kirk’s PlanetPostgreSQL, PostgreSQL /by Kirk Roybal

This time we talk about using ltree as an alternative to PostgreSQL cursors.

Parallelism comes to VACUUM

September 2, 2020/1 Comment/in 2ndQuadrant, Masahiko's Planet PostgreSQL, PostgreSQL, PostgreSQL 13 /by Masahiko Sawada

Vacuum is one of the most important features for reclaiming deleted tuples in tables and indexes. Without vacuum, tables and indexes would continue to grow in size without bounds. This blog post describes the PARALLEL option for VACUUM command, which is newly introduced to PostgreSQL13. Vacuum Processing Phases Before discussing the new option in depth […]

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