Robert Haas

Sr. Staff Software Engineer @ Databricks, PostgreSQL Major Contributor and Committer

Thursday, February 13, 2020

Useless Vacuuming

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In previous blog posts that I've written about VACUUM , and I seem to be accumulating an uncomfortable number of those, I've talked...
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Thursday, January 23, 2020

Contributors Team, Redux

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Last summer, in a burst of sunny optimism and out of a desire for transparency, I posted a blog post about the then-new PostgreSQL Contrib...
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Monday, October 14, 2019

Braces Are Too Expensive

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PostgreSQL has what's sometimes called a Volcano-style executor, after a system called Volcano, about which Goetz Greafe published seve...
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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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