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A Hairy PostgreSQL Incident
It was 5:17pm today, just as I was wrapping up work for the day, and my manager pinged me with the following chat: <manager>: Hi Jeremy - we have a <other team> ticket - escalated to...
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PostgreSQL Performance Puzzle
Update 7/18: y’all guessed the answer to my puzzle very fast! At the bottom of this blog post, I’ve added the expressions that I used (with credit to those who guessed it), and also other expressions...
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Researching the Performance Puzzle
The PostgreSQL Performance Puzzle was, perhaps, too easy – it didn’t take long for someone to guess the correct answer! But I didn’t see much discussion about why the difference or what was happening....
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Seattle User Group Thoughts and Fall Opportunities
Last Thursday was the first in-person Seattle Postgres Users Group meetup since early 2020. We didn’t formally track attendee companies, but I recall having Apple, AWS, Fred Hutch, Google, Microsoft...
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Did Postgres Lose My Data?
Hello, let me introduce myself. Today, we’ll pretend that I’m a linguistics researcher. I don’t know much about databases, but I do know a lot about the Balti language of northern Pakistan. That’s why...
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Seattle Postgres User Group and PASS Summit – PGSQL Phriday #014
This month’s PGSQL Phriday #014 is about PostgreSQL Events, and it’s a great time to give an update about the Seattle Postgres User Group where I’ve been working together with long-time organizer...
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Copy-and-Paste A New Postgres Dev Env In 5 Min
You can cut-and-paste the following commands to quickly get a new & clean dev environment for working with PostgreSQL source code. This includes Michael Paquier’s powerful script kit for managing...
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UUID Benchmark War
This month’s PGSQL Phriday #015 topic is about UUIDs, hosted by Lætitia Avrot. Lætitia has called for a debate. No, no, no. I say let’s have an all-out war. A benchmark war. I have decided to...
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Postgres Indexes, Partitioning and LWLock:LockManager Scalability
I have decided that – in Postgres circles – I shall henceforth refer to 2023 as THE YEAR OF THE LOCK MANAGER’S REVENGE. Let me explain. Lets start with Bruce Momjian. He has an in-depth presentation...
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Major Developments in Postgres Extension Discovery and Distribution
PostgreSQL “extensions” are a big part of what makes this database special. The developers building the core Postgres database are amazing. But many people don’t realize just how much of a “data...
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