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Coroot, an open source observability tool powered by eBPF, went generally available with version 1.0 last week. As this tool is cloud-native, we were curious to know how it can help troubleshoot databases on Kubernetes.In this blog post, we will see how to quickly debug PostgreSQL with Coroot and Percona Operator for PostgreSQL.PrepareInstall CorootThe easiest […]

The video for Yurri Rashkovskii’s presentation at the fifth Postgres Extension Ecosystem Mini-Summit last week is up. Links:

• Video
• PDF Slides

Here’s my interpolation of YouTube’s auto-generated transcript, interspersed with chat activity.

Until now, managing and updating Data Definition Language (DDL) schemas in PostgreSQL was a time-consuming, manual effort and especially difficult in a distributed environment.  With the introduction of automatic DDL replication, pgEdge makes it easier and faster to deliver distributed applications built on open, standard-based PostgreSQL.  In this blog, we delve into what Automatic DDL replication entails and how it can be leveraged effectively with pgEdge.

An Event for Postgres (pronounced /Pō-zet/, and formerly called Citus Con) is a free and virtual developer event. The name POSETTE stands for Postgres Open Source Ecosystem Talks Training & Education.

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This article is a kind of failure story. I originally set out to write a piece about the PostgreSQL parameter cursor_tuple_fraction, only to discover that my boss has already covered that topic to some extent. Then I thought that I could investigate the parameter’s effect on the JDBC driver. That led me to an embarrassingly long wrestle with auto_explain and an eventual failure to find anything. But the world is littered with success stories, so why not share some failure?

PostgreSQL Person of the Week Interview with Nazir Bilal Yavuz: I am Nazir Bilal Yavuz, open source PostgreSQL developer working at Microsoft. I live in Turkey. I spend my free time by doing sports, playing games and football, watching tv series and movies.

Listen/notify in Postgres is an incredible feature that makes itself useful in all kinds of situations. I’ve been using it a long time, started taking it for granted long ago, and was somewhat shocked recently looking into MySQL and SQLite to learn that even in 2024, no equivalent exists.

At PG Day Chicago, I presented an extended version of my talk given last year at Citus.con – Temporal Tables and Standard. Just between the time my talk was accepted and I delivered the presentation, I learned that PG 17 would include the first-ever support of an important temporal feature: uni-temporal primary keys and unique constraints.

Last weekend, Jenn and I headed to Bellingham for LinuxFest Northwest. It was my first time back since about 2015, and I’ve really missed attending this laid-back, 100% volunteer-run, free to attend event. We had a lot of good conversations with folks coming by the booth. Some stats: I’m glad to see LFNW back on […]

One of the surprises that comes with developing applications and operating a database cluster behind them is the discrepancy between practice and theory, development environment and the production. A perfect example of such a mismatch is changing a column type.

The conventional knowledge on how to change a column type in PostgreSQL (and other systems compliant with the SQL standard) is to:

A property graph consists of three types of "things" in it: elements, labels and properties. 

Elements are nodes or edges in the graphs. They form the basic structure of a graph. An edge connects two nodes. Two nodes may be connected by multiple edges corresponding to different relationships between them.

Labels classify the elements. An element may belong to multiple classes and thus have multiple labels.

Introduction In certain situations, it can be beneficial to ignore integer overflow errors. Consider, for instance, an integer table column that typically accommodates small values. On rare occasions, a significantly larger value might be inserted. Attempting to aggregate these values could lead to an integer overflow error, causing the entire aggregate query to fail, which is far from ideal. Handling large values on the client or worker side, where the data is inserted, is one option.

Introduction – Implicit Conversion

Oracle to PostgreSQL migration is a playground that uncovers and touches upon many database concepts, which are always intriguing and fun to explore. Implicit Conversion, i.e., imposing automatic conversion on data types to make them comparable by database optimizers, is also a concept frequently encountered in database migrations. Implicit conversion allows for the automatic conversion of data types for an expression or condition when necessary for SQL execution, thus preventing failures.

1. Overview

In this blog post, we will guide you through the process of integrating IvorySQL, an open-source database built on PostgreSQL, into Neon Autoscaling Platform. Throughout this guide, we’ll walk you through each step, providing clear instructions and demonstrations.

Exploring new features in pgvector v0.7.0

Hacking on PostgreSQL is really hard. I think a lot of people would agree with this statement, not all for the same reasons. Some might point to the character of discourse on the mailing list, others to the shortage of patch reviewers, and others still to the difficulty of getting the attention of a committer, or of feeling like a hostage to some committer's whimsy.

There are many cases where external connection poolers like pgBouncer become unavoidable despite the costs and complexities associated with them. PgBouncer is one of the most popular external connection poolers for PostgreSQL. It is thin and lightweight, so it doesn’t have built-in authentication features like LDAP, which is essential for many enterprises. Luckily, pgBouncer has […]

Well that snuck up on me. Tomorrow, May 1 2024, Yurii Rashkovskii of Omnigres will be giving a presentation at the fifth installment of the Postgres extension ecosystem mini-summit. The tal, “Universally buildable extensions: dev to prod”, should provoke some interesting asymmetrical thinking and discussion.

Explore foundational parameters for maximizing the utility of PostgreSQL logs.

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I wanted to write a “year-in-review” covering all the performance pgvector has made (with significant credit to Andrew Kane), highlighting specific areas where pgvector has improved (including one 150x improvement!) and areas where we can continue to do better.