Tuesday, August 02, 2016

Uber's move away from PostgreSQL

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Last week, a blog post by an Uber engineer explained why Uber chose to move from PostgreSQL to MySQL . This article was widely reported and...
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Thursday, May 26, 2016

PostgreSQL Regression Test Coverage

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Yesterday evening, I ran the PostgreSQL regression tests (make check-world) on master and on each supported back-branch three times on hydra...
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Thursday, April 21, 2016

PostgreSQL 9.6 with Parallel Query vs. TPC-H

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I decided to try out parallel query, as implemented in PostgreSQL 9.6devel, on the TPC-H queries.  To do this, I followed the directions at ...
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Monday, March 21, 2016

Parallel Query Is Getting Better And Better

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Back in early November, I reported that the first version of parallel sequential scan had been committed to PostgreSQL 9.6.  I'm please...
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Thursday, March 10, 2016

No More Full-Table Vacuums

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I just committed a very important patch to PostgreSQL.  The short summary for the patch is " Don't vacuum all-frozen pages. " ...
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Tuesday, January 12, 2016

PostgreSQL Past, Present, and Future: Moving The Goalposts

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It's nice to see that PostgreSQL 9.5 is finally released!  There are a number of blog posts out about that already, not to mention stor...
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Wednesday, November 11, 2015

Parallel Sequential Scan is Committed!

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I previously suggested that we might be able to get parallel sequential scan committed to PostgreSQL 9.5.  That did not happen.  However, I...
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