A query to find out if Postgres is read heavy or write heavy and tips for optimizing Postgres for both read and write workloads.

A month ago, during a release to production, the feature I was working on failed to deploy due to a PostgreSQL restriction. It turned out to be a surprisingly fun and comprehensive learning moment.

PostgreSQL Development Conference, aka "PGConf.dev", is where users, developers, and community organizers come together to focus on PostgreSQL development an...

The CIS Benchmark for Postgres is a free, community supported, security checklist for Postgres.

Boost PostgreSQL full-text search speed by 50x with simple optimizations. Use VectorChord-BM25 to accelerate and better BM25 ranking in postgres.

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An issue I often see folks missing when reviewing query plans, is that they see that all of their scans involve indexes and they think that the query is likely already as fast (or efficient) as it can be. In this post we’ll look through several examples, some things to look out for, and how to then

An SQL optimization guide for developers. With best practices, warnings, and pro tips to speed up your SQL query optimization.

I’ve been working professionally for the better part of a decade on web apps and, in that time, I’ve had to learn how to use a lot of different systems and tools. During that education, I found that the official documentation typically proved to be the most helpful.

Introduction When modeling a Postgres database, you probably don’t give much thought to the order of columns in your tables. After all, it seems like the kind of thing that wouldn’t affect storage or performance. But what if I told you that simply reordering your columns could reduce the size of your tables and indexes by 20%? This isn’t some obscure database trick — it’s a direct result of how Postgres aligns data on disk.\n

p PostgreSQL became a go-to SQL database for many developers over the past couple of years. While being an SQL database, Postgres also includes a lot of ...

Optimizing Postgres's Autovacuum for High-Churn Tables

How to monitor replication lag in PostgreSQL? What is replication lag? And how to best go about monitoring PostgreSQL replication in general?

Embedding Yjs and Automerge into Postgres for collaborative applications.

Secure data is critical for the success of our enterprise customers. This post is intended to give you high level tips to harden your PostgreSQL Flexible..

Build a time-series graph or plot to quickly visualize data using Postgres materialized views and their upgraded version, continuous aggregates.

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 poin...

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In this video I'm doing "magic" binary search. This search fallbacks to linear search when the number of tuples is small. Typically this is done to reduce number of branch mispredictions, but it's rather toy feature here. It's taken only for example. Resulting code https://github.com/x4m/postgres_g/commit/a66ff4e0669b01ea09eed734cf4e60c745527c5c https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Compile_and_Install_from_source_code git clone --depth=5 --single-branch --branch=master https://github.com/postgres/postgres cd postgres ./configure --prefix=$PWD --enable-depend make -j10 to /dev/null make check

Speaker: Vagmi Mudumbai While PostgreSQL is a mature database, it packs a punch when it comes to features. This is a talk to talk about various features of PostgreSQL like. * Crosstab queries (Pivot Table) * Window functions * JSON operations * Full-text search queries * Row-level security

A new demand for storing an old data type in PostgreSQL.

Learn the theory and the details of how to speed up PostgreSQL® pgvector queries using indexes IVFFlat, HNSW and traditional indexes