While writing about the monitoring improvements in PostgreSQL 19 and preparing my new talk on Postgres observability for PostgreSQL Conference Europe in October, I noticed the system views got their own section in this release. The last…
On 26 August 2026, the Adelaide PostgreSQL User Group met, organized by Robins Tharakan. Shadab Mohammad and Robins Tharakan delivered a talk. On 26 August, the Sydney PostgreSQL User Group met, organized by Shadab Mohammad. Rajesh…
PostgreSQL's oldest logging parameters measure CPU time, page faults, and context switches per statement—crude but irreplaceable when you need to know why a…
log_lock_waits is the cheapest lock-contention detector PostgreSQL ships, and through version 18 it is off by default. Turn it on. PostgreSQL 19 will do it for you. The mechanism is borrowed rather than built. When a backend has to sleep…