UUIDs are a popular identifier data type – they are unpredictable, and/or globally unique (or at least very unlikely to collide) and quite easy to generate. Traditional primary keys based on sequences won’t give you any of that, which makes them unsuitable for public identifiers, and UUIDs solve that pretty naturally. But there are disadvantages […]
PostgreSQL 11 was released recently, with exciting new features. One of them is the ability to write SQL procedures that can perform full transaction management, enabling developers to create more advanced server-side applications. SQL procedures can be created using the CREATE PROCEDURE command and executed using the CALL command. Since OmniDB 2.3.0 it is possible […]
PostgreSQL is referred to as “The world’s most advanced open source database” – but what does PostgreSQL have that other open source relational databases don’t? 2ndQuadrant recently hosted a webinar on this very topic: PostgreSQL is NOT your traditional SQL database, presented by Gülçin Yıldırım Jelínek, Cloud Services Manager at 2ndQuadrant. The recording of […]
During the PostgreSQL 11 development cycle an impressive amount of work was done to improve table partitioning. Table partitioning is a feature that has existed in PostgreSQL for quite a long time, but it really wasn’t until version 10 that it started to become a highly useful feature. We’d previously claimed that table inheritance was […]
In PostgreSQL version 10 or less, if you add a new column to a table without specifying a default value then no change is made to the actual values stored. Any existing row will just fill in a NULL for that column. But if you specify a default value, the entire table gets rewritten with […]
After the success of last year’s event, the second PGDay held in Australia, we’re back this year with PGDay Down Under. The name “Down Under” refers to Australia and New Zealand, due to the fact these countries are located in the lower latitudes of the southern hemisphere. The conference is a one-day community event organized by […]
Studying Stored Procs in Postgres 11 With Postgres 11 looming on the near horizon, it’s only appropriate to check out a recent beta and kick the tires a few times. Whether it’s improvements in parallelism, partitions, stored procedures, JIT functionality, or any number of elements in the release page, there’s a lot to investigate. It […]
Postgres contains a moving event horizon, which is in effect about 2 billion transactions ahead of or behind the current transaction id. Transactions more than 2 billion ahead of or more than 2 billion behind the current transaction id are considered to be in the future, and will thus be invisible to current transactions. Postgres […]
The video of my presentation below walks you through ‘Indexing in PostgreSQL’ – a key component to database performance. This presentation covers the following topics: Various ways to access data in PostgreSQL Different types of indexes supported by PostgreSQL Internals of BTree and BRIN indexes Overview of GIN and GiST indexes How to find missing indexes […]
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