After stumbling on a pair of interesting blog posts — You Don’t Need Kafka, Just Use Postgres (Considered Harmful) — somewhat in the style of good old “flame wars” (which are increasingly rare these days) in the recent Postgres Weekly, as a response to a previous article — Kafka is... [Read More]

TPC-C is supposedly the most objective performance measurement of OLTP database systems… and I’ve used it quite a fair bit over the years as well…yet, running it on Postgres is sadly not exactly as smooth as things typically are with Postgres 😔 If to compare at least with the wonderful... [Read More]

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]