At pgConf.eu in Athens - by the way, reported to be the largest PostgreSQL conference to date, attesting to the software’s undeniable success! - I got into a sort of interesting hallway discussion. I guess my chat companion was relatively new to the ecosystem - and said something along the... [Read More]

While everyone agrees that Postgres has a lot of really nice things going for it, the analytics story has lagged a bit as there are some hard problems to be solved - the on-disk format would have to be changed or IO-layer abstracted away even further to allow alternative engines,... [Read More]

In my last post I did a quick check on the performance of the newer (lz4, zstd) pg_dump compression options, which included setting up a small framework to download some openly available “real life”-ish sample datasets. And the general result was that, indeed - the new algos in lower levels... [Read More]

Time between Christmas and New Year is always a good quiet time to be able to concentrate and tick off some mouldy TODO list items. For me this time the top item was a script (which turned into a small framework somehow), to download and import some openly available “real... [Read More]

Today again a nice finding after 12 years with Postgres - seems one can actually retrieve the time when a cluster / instance was once initialized! Given of course you haven’t dump-restored or in-place upgraded the instance in the mean time… [Read More]