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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 […]
02 July 2024
Instaclustr Managed Postgres with Terraform Part 1
Hashicorp Terraform is a well-known infrastructure automation tool mostly targeting cloud deployments. Instaclustr (a part of NetApp’s CloudOps division and credativ’s parent company) provides a managed service for various data stores, including PostgreSQL. Provisioning managed clusters is possible via the Instaclustr console, a REST API or through the Instaclustr Terraform Provider. In this first part […]
26 June 2024
Prague PostgreSQL Developers Day 2024
On Wednesday, June 5th, I attended the Prague PostgreSQL Developers Day 2024. It is the premier PostgreSQL conference in the Czech Republic, and this year marked its 16th iteration. The event was held in the modern and convenient environment of the Czech Technical University and was attended by almost 270 participants. During the conference, I […]
26 March 2024
Bloat of internal tables due to frequently created and dropped relations
Overview Tables that are created and dropped on demand, whether they are temporary or regular, are frequently used by application developers in PostgreSQL to simplify the implementation of various functionalities and to expedite responses. Numerous articles on the internet describe the advantages of using such tables for storing search results, precalculating figures for reports, importing […]
22 February 2024
Quick Benchmark: PostgreSQL 2024Q1 Release Performance Improvements
The PostgreSQL 2024Q1 back-branch releases 16.2, 15.6, 14.11, 13.14 and 12.18 on February 8th 2024. Besides fixing a security issue (CVE-2024-0985) and the usual bugs, they are somewhat unique in that they address two performance problems by backporting fixes already introduced into the master branch before. In this blog post, we describe two quick benchmarks […]