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Oracle halved the Always Free Ampere A1 compute allowance from 4 OCPUs and 24 GB RAM to 2 OCPUs and 12 GB RAM with no public announcement. Support agents gave conflicting answers on whether PAYG accounts are affected. Documentation states…
If you are of a certain age, the words 38911 BASIC BYTES FREE will do something to you that no amount of therapy can undo. You remember the blue screen. You remember typing in three pages of a listing from a magazine, getting ?SYNTAX ERROR…
Yesterday, I had the pleasure of presenting at the Postgres User Group Estonia, and that was a delightful experience! Many thanks to Ervin Weber, who literally spent three years trying to make it happen. I was happy to give back to one of…
Nested loop joins are PostgreSQL's most notorious performance disaster—but only when the planner misestimates row counts.