Broadcasting a quick tip from a real-life “tasklet” where a customer was genuinely surprised why a seemingly logical fix didn’t show up on Google / LLM-s. So let’s see if we can improve on that situation. [Read More]

Some weeks ago Postgres (well, not directly the official Postgres project) again managed to surprise me during my daily muscle-memory operations, prompting even one relatively lazy human to actually write about it. [Read More]

Animated by some comments / complaints about Postgres’ missing user variables story on a Reddit post about PostgreSQL pain points in the real world - I thought I’d elaborate a bit on sessions vars - which is indeed a little known Postgres functionality. [Read More]

A small follow up on my previous post on various Postgres scale-up avenues in my preferred order. The post received quite a bit of interest - meaning people at least still “wish” performant databases :) And - the ones who are willing to put in a bit of effort with... [Read More]

After meeting with another database fellow recently - the evergreen topic of database scaling popped up again. That won’t go out of fashion anytime soon I guess, despite the AI advancements and the rise of Postgres-aware chatbots a la Xata Agent. Namely - when to grab for which designs, technical... [Read More]