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14 February 2025

Prague PostgreSQL Developer Day 2025

The Prague PostgreSQL Developer Day (P2D2) is a well-established Czech PostgreSQL conference. This year’s 17th edition was exceptional, with 275 registered visitors and 16 talks across two tracks. Notably, several major PostgreSQL contributors and core members were present, underlining the event’s significance. Tomas Vondra, as in previous years, organized the conference. Bruce Momjian, Vice President […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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