Wednesday, September 25, 2019

Synchronous Replication is a Trap

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Almost ten years ago, I wrote a blog post -- cautiously titled What Kind of Replication Do You Need? -- in which I suggested that the answ...
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Wednesday, June 05, 2019

The Contributors Team

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Recently, the PostgreSQL project spun up a "contributors" team, whose mission is to ensure that the PostgreSQL contributors list ...
Monday, February 18, 2019

Tuning autovacuum_naptime

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One of the things I sometimes get asked to do is review someone's postgresql.conf settings.  From time to time, I run across a configur...
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Thursday, January 24, 2019

How Much maintenance_work_mem Do I Need?

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While I generally like PostgreSQL's documentation quite a bit, there are some areas where it is not nearly specific enough for users to ...
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Wednesday, January 23, 2019

Who Contributed to PostgreSQL Development in 2018?

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This is my third annual post on who contributes to PostgreSQL development.  I have been asked a few times to include information on who empl...
Thursday, January 10, 2019

Amazon's DocumentDB, MongoDB, and TechCrunch

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Over on TechCrunch , you can find an article posted just yesterday with the inflammatory title AWS gives open source the middle finger . The...
Thursday, June 21, 2018

Using force_parallel_mode Correctly

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I admit it: I invented force_parallel_mode.  I believed then, and still believe now, that it is valuable for testing purposes.  Certainly, t...