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PostgreSQL 17 introduced read streams that combine adjacent disk blocks into larger I/O requests.
Formatting SQL tends to bring some of the same questions again and again: should we uppercase clause keywords? should we put the separating comma at the start of a line to ease refactoring? how to align the SQL clauses with one-another?…
We’re happy to announce that Percona Server for MongoDB (PSMDB) 8.0.28-12 extends platform support to RHEL 10 and its derivatives (Oracle Linux 10, Rocky Linux 10, AlmaLinux 10, and other RHEL-compatible distributions) for both x86_64 and…
Implement multi-tenant BYOK column encryption in PostgreSQL with pgcrypto using customer-managed encryption keys.
You have probably read a dozen tutorials on setting up PostgreSQL High Availability (HA). On paper, it looks simple: spin up a primary instance, spin up a standby, and let them replicate. But what happens when you move to a multi-region…
IntervalStyle changes how PostgreSQL parses interval input, not just formats output—and in one case, it silently flips the sign of your data.
From October 20-23, the global Postgres community will descend upon the beautiful Palacio de Congresos in Valencia, Spain, for PGConf EU. I compiled an overview of the sessions and community events EDB colleagues are running.
Partitioning gets sold as a performance switch. You flip it on a big table, and the slow queries get fast. Most of the time, that is exactly what happens. But there is a version of this where you do all the work, split a huge table into…
Every PostgreSQL connection since 8.0 has heard the server announce `integer_datetimes`—a parameter that's had only one possible value since PostgreSQL 10.
The PostGIS Team is pleased to release PostGIS 3.7.0beta2! Best Served with PostgreSQL 19 Beta2 and GEOS 3.15.0beta2. This version requires PostgreSQL 14 - 19beta2, GEOS 3.10 or higher, and Proj 6.1+. To take advantage of all features,…
After becoming a PostgreSQL ACE, Zhang Chen explains why he uses the title “PostgreSQL Database Recovery Expert” and how PDU evolved from offline extraction and WAL mining to fragment scanning and recovery without a data dictionary.
