Wednesday, December 20, 2023

Praise, Criticism, and Dialogue

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When my children were little and I was trying to figure out how to be a parent, I read someplace that you need to have five positive interac...
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Wednesday, June 14, 2023

The PostgreSQL Documentation and the Limitations of Community

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In my opinion, the PostgreSQL documentation is simultaneously excellent and fairly poor, and both its excellence and its shortcomings are di...
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Thursday, May 25, 2023

Do I Really Need That backup_label File?

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I'm sure you already know what I'm going to tell you: " Of course  you need that backup_label file. How could you even think  ...
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Friday, April 14, 2023

Who Contributed to PostgreSQL Development in 2022?

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As in previous years, I've pulled together a few statistics on code contributions to PostgreSQL. See previous posts in this series for ...
Monday, April 10, 2023

Updating the Cost Limit On The Fly

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Rejoice and be glad! I was so pleased this morning to see that Melanie Plageman's patch to make autovacuum absorb new cost limit setting...
Tuesday, April 04, 2023

Assigning Blame For PostgreSQL Errors

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If an error message shows up in the PostgreSQL log, what program is malfunctioning? It's easy to conclude that the answer is PostgreSQL,...
Tuesday, January 24, 2023

Surviving Without A Superuser - Coming to v16

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As I've written about before , a PostgreSQL superuser always has the ability to take over the operating system account in which PostgreS...
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