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,…

The engineering team at Stripe recently described how they automated database incident recovery by modeling their global infrastructure as a graph. Using graph search algorithms together with state machines, the team computes and executes…