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17 December 2024
Quick Benchmark: Improvements to Large Object Dumping in Postgres 17
Version 17 of PostgreSQL has been released for a while. One of the many features is a change by Tom Lane called “Rearrange pg_dump’s handling of large objects for better efficiency”. In the past, we have seen our customers have several problems with a large number of large objects being a performance issue for dump/restore. […]
04 December 2024
Unique Constraint Violations During Inserts Cause Bloat in PostgreSQL
The issue of table and index bloat due to failed inserts on unique constraints is well known and has been discussed in various articles across the internet. However, these discussions sometimes lack a clear, practical example with measurements to illustrate the impact. And despite the familiarity of this issue, we still frequently see this design […]
15 October 2024
TOASTed JSONB data in PostgreSQL: performance tests of different compression algorithms
TOAST (The Oversized Attribute Storage Technique) is PostgreSQL’s mechanism for handling large data objects that exceed the 8KB data page limit. Introduced in PostgreSQL 7.1, TOAST is an improved version of the out-of-line storage mechanism used in Oracle databases for handling large objects (LOBs). Both databases store variable-length data either inline within the table or […]
03 September 2024
Quick Benchmark: ANALYZE vs. maintenance_io_concurrency
Introduction Running ANALYZE (either explicitly or via auto-analyze) is very important in order to have uptodate data statistics for the Postgres query planner. In particular after in-place upgrades via pg_upgrade, ANALYZE needs to be run in order to have any query statistics at all. As ANALYZE samples only parts of the blocks in a table […]
23 July 2024
Swiss PG Day 2024
On Thursday, 27 June, and Friday, 28 June 2024, I had the amazing opportunity to attend Swiss PGDay 2024. The conference was held at the OST Eastern Switzerland University of Applied Sciences, Campus Rapperswil, which is beautifully situated on the banks of Lake Zurich in a nice, green environment. With approximately 110 attendees, the event […]