Scaling Postgres

In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we discuss implementing row level triggers, how to return dynamic columns using pl/pgsql, and when to use citext. Subscribe at https://www.scalingpostgres.com to get notified of new episodes. Links for this episode: https://pganalyze.com/blog/custom-postgres-data-types-ruby-rails https://www.cybertec-postgresql.com/en/what-to-return-from-a-postgresql-row-level-trigger/ https://www.depesz.com/2021/04/21/getting-value-from-dynamic-column-in-pl-pgsql-triggers/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iq8sUHYilPk https://www.highgo.ca/2021/04/22/hash-index-internals/ https://www.highgo.ca/2021/04/19/calling-stored-procedure-from-java-part-2/ https://pgsqlpgpool.blogspot.com/2021/04/visibility-with-query-cache.html https://postgresql.life/post/pavlo_golub/

In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we discuss 5 years of scaling lessons, working with synchronous commit, managing connections and cleaning up BLOBs. Subscribe at https://www.scalingpostgres.com to get notified of new episodes. Links for this episode: https://onesignal.com/blog/lessons-learned-from-5-years-of-scaling-postgresql/ https://momjian.us/main/blogs/pgblog/2021.html#April_14_2021 https://blog.crunchydata.com/blog/your-guide-to-connection-management-in-postgres https://www.cybertec-postgresql.com/en/cleaning-up-large-number-blobs/ https://www.keithf4.com/managing-transaction-id-exhaustion-wraparound-in-postgresql/ https://blog.crunchydata.com/blog/postgres-is-out-of-disk-and-how-to-recover-the-dos-and-donts https://www.cybertec-postgresql.com/en/finally-a-system-level-read-all-data-role-for-postgresql/ https://www.citusdata.com/blog/2021/04/10/talk-at-cmu-how-citus-distributes-postgresql-via-extension-apis/ https://www.enterprisedb.com/blog/benchmarking-postgresql-setting-ra

In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we discuss tips for using psql, stories from a Postgres 13 upgrade, exploring the role hierarchy and replica scaling considerations. Subscribe at https://www.scalingpostgres.com to get notified of new episodes. Links for this episode: https://mydbanotebook.org/psql_tips_all.html https://blog.discourse.org/2021/04/standing-on-the-shoulders-of-a-giant-elephant/ https://www.cybertec-postgresql.com/en/postgresql-get-member-roles-and-permissions/ https://momjian.us/main/blogs/pgblog/2021.html#April_9_2021 https://www.migops.com/blog/2021/04/09/pgbackrest-the-best-postgres-backup-tool-with-a-very-active-community/ https://blog.crunchydata.com/blog/announcing-google-cloud-storage-gcs-support-for-pgbackrest https://blog.crunchydata.com/blog/introducing-pgbackrest-multiple-repository-support https://digitalis.io/blog/postgresql/part1-postgresql-ha-patroni-etcd-haproxy/ https://digitalis.io/blog/postgresql/deploying-postgresql-for-high-availability-with-patron

In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we discuss when to use tablespaces, setting up streaming replication, features coming in Postgres 14 and implementing security. Subscribe at https://www.scalingpostgres.com to get notified of new episodes. Links for this episode: https://www.cybertec-postgresql.com/en/when-to-use-tablespaces-in-postgresql/ https://www.migops.com/blog/2021/03/31/setting-up-streaming-replication-in-postgresql-13-and-streaming-replication-internals/ https://www.depesz.com/2021/04/01/waiting-for-postgresql-14-add-pg_database_owner-default-role/ https://www.depesz.com/2021/03/31/waiting-for-postgresql-14-add-date_bin-function/ https://www.depesz.com/2021/04/01/waiting-for-postgresql-14-add-unistr-function/ https://blog.crunchydata.com/blog/is-postgres-secure https://www.youtube.com/user/EnterpriseDB/videos https://fluca1978.github.io/2021/04/02/OOMKillerFreeBSD.html https://b-peng.blogspot.com/2021/03/logging-pgpool-on-k8s.html http://blog.cleverelephant.ca/2021/04/psql-b

In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we discuss a vacuum speed up and faster foreign tables in Postgres 14, running faster queries with union and learning about the query optimizer. Subscribe at https://www.scalingpostgres.com to get notified of new episodes. Links for this episode: https://www.citusdata.com/blog/2021/03/25/speeding-up-recovery-and-vacuum-in-postgres-14/ http://postgres-road.blogspot.com/2021/03/faster-bulk-insertion-to-foreign-tables.html https://www.foxhound.systems/blog/sql-performance-with-union/ https://www.cybertec-postgresql.com/en/how-the-postgresql-query-optimizer-works/ https://www.highgo.ca/2021/03/20/how-to-check-and-resolve-bloat-in-postgresql/ https://www.depesz.com/2021/03/22/waiting-for-postgresql-14-allow-configurable-lz4-toast-compression/ https://www.citusdata.com/blog/2021/03/20/sharding-postgres-on-a-single-citus-node/ https://www.youtube.com/user/EnterpriseDB/videos https://blog.crunchydata.com/blog/get-started-with-explain-analyze https://www.e

In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we discuss auto_explain's overhead, setting up a Postgres data lake, rebalancing a Citus shared database and implementing SSL authentication. Subscribe at https://www.scalingpostgres.com to get notified of new episodes. Links for this episode: https://www.pgmustard.com/blog/auto-explain-overhead-with-timing https://tech.fretlink.com/build-your-own-data-lake-for-reporting-purposes/ https://www.citusdata.com/blog/2021/03/13/scaling-out-postgres-with-citus-open-source-shard-rebalancer/ https://www.cybertec-postgresql.com/en/setting-up-ssl-authentication-for-postgresql/ https://blog.crunchydata.com/blog/enhancing-postgresql-13-security-with-the-cis-benchmark-1 https://www.enterprisedb.com/blog/how-edb-postgres-stigs-can-be-used-secure-your-postgresql-database https://www.highgo.ca/2021/03/15/monitoring-postgresql-with-nagios-and-checkmk/ https://blog.crunchydata.com/blog/musings-of-a-postgresql-data-pontiff https://blog.crunchydata.com/blog/episode-2-ho

In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we discuss Citus 10 columnar storage, using Postgres in docker containers, using notify & listen for real-time apps and tuning RHEL. Subscribe at https://www.scalingpostgres.com to get notified of new episodes. Links for this episode: https://www.citusdata.com/blog/2021/03/06/citus-10-columnar-compression-for-postgres/ https://www.cybertec-postgresql.com/en/running-postgres-in-docker-why-and-how/ https://blog.arctype.com/postgres-notify-for-real-time-dashboards/ https://www.enterprisedb.com/blog/tuning-red-hat-enterprise-linux-family-postgresql https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/database/best-practices-for-amazon-rds-for-postgresql-major-upgrades-and-replicas/ https://pgsqlpgpool.blogspot.com/2021/03/speeding-up-pgbench-using-copy-freeze.html https://www.cybertec-postgresql.com/en/postgresql-github-actions-continuous-integration/ https://postgresql.life/post/guillaume_lelarge/

In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we discuss Citus 10 open source, time series performance in native Postgres, using subscripting for updates and new target_session_attrs. Subscribe at https://www.scalingpostgres.com to get notified of new episodes. Links for this episode: https://www.citusdata.com/blog/2021/03/05/citus-10-release-open-source-rebalancer-and-columnar-for-postgres/ https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/database/designing-high-performance-time-series-data-tables-on-amazon-rds-for-postgresql/ https://erthalion.info/2021/03/03/subscripting/ https://www.cybertec-postgresql.com/en/new-target_session_attrs-settings-for-high-availability-and-scaling-in-postgresql-v14/ https://www.depesz.com/2021/03/01/starting-with-pg-where-how-can-i-set-configuration-parameters/ https://www.depesz.com/2021/03/05/starting-with-pg-where-are-logs/ https://www.youtube.com/user/EnterpriseDB/videos https://www.enterprisedb.com/blog/security-and-containers-cloud-native-postgresql https://www.cybertec-postgr

In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we discuss connection queuing, estimating connection pools size, how to do simple auditing and how to run queries using fuzzy matching. Subscribe at https://www.scalingpostgres.com to get notified of new episodes. Links for this episode: https://www.percona.com/blog/2021/02/26/connection-queuing-in-pgbouncer-is-it-a-magical-remedy/ https://www.cybertec-postgresql.com/en/estimating-connection-pool-size-with-postgresql-database-statistics/ https://mydbanotebook.org/post/auditing/ https://info.crunchydata.com/blog/fuzzy-name-matching-in-postgresql https://www.cybertec-postgresql.com/en/postgresql-how-to-write-a-trigger/ https://www.highgo.ca/2021/02/24/postgresql-logical-replication-advantage-and-step-by-step-set-up/ https://www.citusdata.com/blog/2021/02/20/faster-data-migrations-in-postgres/ https://blog.rustprooflabs.com/2021/02/postgres-partition-openstreetmap-road-v1-review https://blog.rustprooflabs.com/2021/02/postgres-partition-openstreetmap-ro

In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we discuss how to convert an integer primary key to a bigint, how container resistance is futile, how the optimizer uses statistics and how to set manual statistics. Subscribe at https://www.scalingpostgres.com to get notified of new episodes. Links for this episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVty0_qcPzM https://info.crunchydata.com/blog/deep-postgresql-thoughts-resistance-to-containers-is-futile https://www.cybertec-postgresql.com/en/postgresql-analyze-and-optimizer-statistics/ https://www.cybertec-postgresql.com/en/postgresql-create-statistics-advanced-query-optimization/ https://aaronbos.dev/posts/query-postgresql-json https://info.crunchydata.com/blog/tentative-smarter-query-optimization-in-postgres-starts-with-pg_stat_statements https://blog.rustprooflabs.com/2021/02/postgres-postgis-why-partition-openstreetmap https://blog.rustprooflabs.com/2021/02/postgres-postgis-partition-openstreetmap-road https://info.crunchydata.com/blog/arcgis-feat

In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we discuss new PostgreSQL releases, reconnecting after a connection failure, Babelfish SQL Server compatibility and troubleshooting disk and memory issues. Subscribe at https://www.scalingpostgres.com to get notified of new episodes. Links for this episode: https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/postgresql-132-126-1111-1016-9621-and-9525-released-2165/ https://www.citusdata.com/blog/2021/02/12/reconnecting-your-app-after-a-postgres-failover/ https://postgresql.fund/blog/babelfish-the-elephant-in-the-room/ https://www.highgo.ca/2021/02/08/troubleshooting-performance-issues-due-to-disk-and-ram/ https://www.depesz.com/2021/02/12/starting-with-pg-where-is-the-config/ https://www.depesz.com/2021/02/09/why-is-there-database-named-postgres/ https://www.highgo.ca/2021/02/12/exploring-sql-command-changes-in-pg-14/ https://fluca1978.github.io/2021/02/08/PostgreSQLToastCorruption.html https://info.crunchydata.com/blog/deep-postgresql-thoughts-the-linux-assassin

In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we discuss cleaning up your database, function performance, 11 million IOPS and change data capture. Subscribe at https://www.scalingpostgres.com to get notified of new episodes. Links for this episode: https://hakibenita.com/postgresql-unused-index-size https://info.crunchydata.com/blog/cleaning-up-your-postgres-database https://www.ongres.com/blog/boost-your-user-defined-functions-in-postgresql/ https://tanelpoder.com/posts/11m-iops-with-10-ssds-on-amd-threadripper-pro-workstation/ https://info.crunchydata.com/blog/postgres-change-data-capture-with-debezium https://www.cybertec-postgresql.com/en/postgresql-what-is-a-checkpoint/ https://www.youtube.com/user/EnterpriseDB/videos https://blog.rustprooflabs.com/2021/02/postgresql-sqlite-fdw-pihole https://www.percona.com/blog/2021/02/01/postgresql-database-security-authentication/ https://info.crunchydata.com/blog/postgres-and-crypto-supply-chain-of-integrity https://www.depesz.com/2021/02/04/wait

In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we discuss scaling advice, a vicious cycle of WAL writes, how to improve observability and addressing database corruption. Subscribe at https://www.scalingpostgres.com to get notified of new episodes. Links for this episode: https://www.cybertec-postgresql.com/en/postgres-scaling-advice-for-2021/ https://mydbanotebook.org/post/vicious-circle/ https://pgdash.io/blog/postgres-observability.html https://www.highgo.ca/2021/01/27/avoiding-identifying-and-dealing-with-postgresql-database-corruption-part-1/ https://tech.coffeemeetsbagel.com/our-journey-to-postgresql-12-3d6ee15d305a https://www.cybertec-postgresql.com/en/monitoring-replication-pg_stat_replication/ https://www.depesz.com/2021/01/28/how-to-run-some-tasks-without-user-intervention-at-specific-times-part-2/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ndtN6vYhyUU https://www.percona.com/blog/2021/01/28/how-to-create-postgresql-custom-builds-and-debian-packages/ https://www.highgo.ca/2021/01/25/a-preliminar

In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we discuss tests of Postgres on ARM processors, 2021 tips & tricks, working with hierarchical structures and creating a benchmarking framework. Subscribe at https://www.scalingpostgres.com to get notified of new episodes. Links for this episode: https://www.percona.com/blog/2021/01/22/postgresql-on-arm-based-aws-ec2-instances-is-it-any-good/ https://www.cybertec-postgresql.com/en/tips-and-tricks-to-kick-start-the-postgres-year-2021/ https://hoverbear.org/blog/postgresql-hierarchical-structures/ https://markwkm.blogspot.com/2021/01/demo-of-another-benchmarking-framework.html https://www.depesz.com/2021/01/18/waiting-for-postgresql-14-add-pg_stat_database-counters-for-sessions-and-session-time/ https://www.depesz.com/2021/01/17/are-there-limits-to-partition-counts/ https://www.enterprisedb.com/blog/how-dave-page-episode-3-install-and-run-pgadmin-using-python-package https://www.cybertec-postgresql.com/en/golden-proportions-in-postgresql/ https://i

In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we discuss hash indexes, the int, float and numeric data types, features coming in Postgres 14 and data science in Postgres. Subscribe at https://www.scalingpostgres.com to get notified of new episodes. Links for this episode: https://hakibenita.com/postgresql-hash-index https://www.cybertec-postgresql.com/en/postgresql-int4-vs-float4-vs-numeric/ https://www.depesz.com/2021/01/12/waiting-for-postgresql-14-report-progress-of-copy-commands/ https://www.depesz.com/2021/01/12/waiting-for-postgresql-14-add-idle_session_timeout/ https://info.crunchydata.com/blog/r-predictive-analytics-in-data-science-work-using-postgresql https://www.highgo.ca/2021/01/12/the-mapping-of-oid-and-relfilenode-in-pg/ https://www.highgo.ca/2021/01/15/how-postgresql-executes-sequential-scans-with-the-help-of-table-access-methods-apis/ http://smalldatum.blogspot.com/2021/01/sysbench-in-memory-postgres-postgres-is.html https://www.depesz.com/2021/01/15/how-to-run-some-tasks-withou

In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we discuss PostgreSQL as the DBMS of the year, running better data migrations, the impact of idle connections and a security implementation guild. Subscribe at https://www.scalingpostgres.com to get notified of new episodes. Links for this episode: https://db-engines.com/en/blog_post/85 https://medium.com/doctolib/stop-worrying-about-postgresql-locks-in-your-rails-migrations-3426027e9cc9 https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/database/resources-consumed-by-idle-postgresql-connections/ https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/database/performance-impact-of-idle-postgresql-connections/ https://www.depesz.com/2021/01/08/how-to-limit-rows-to-at-most-n-per-category-fix/ https://info.crunchydata.com/blog/announcing-the-crunchy-data-postgresql-stig https://www.percona.com/blog/2021/01/04/postgresql-database-security-what-you-need-to-know/ https://fluca1978.github.io/2021/01/03/PostgreSQLSingleUserModeP.html https://info.crunchydata.com/blog/using-r-in-postgres-for-logistic-regr

In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we discuss setting up active-active instances with federation, the impact of memory speed, the causes of table rewrites and the Postgres shibboleth. Subscribe at https://www.scalingpostgres.com to get notified of new episodes. Links for this episode: https://info.crunchydata.com/blog/active-active-postgres-federation-on-kubernetes https://info.crunchydata.com/blog/postgresql-13-benchmark-memory-speed-vs.-tps https://www.thatguyfromdelhi.com/2020/12/what-postgres-sql-causes-table-rewrite.html https://www.cybertec-postgresql.com/en/the-shibboleth-of-postgresql/ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjowqBHD53OEHUtxuLj2JYg/videos https://www.highgo.ca/2020/12/29/checkpoints-in-postgresql/ https://www.depesz.com/2020/12/24/how-to-install-and-configure-postgresql-debian-ubuntu-for-developer-use-part-1/ https://www.depesz.com/2020/12/29/how-to-install-and-configure-postgresql-debian-ubuntu-for-developer-use-part-2/ https://www.depesz.com/2020/12/21/waiting-for-

In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we discuss the PGMiner botnet attack, how collation changes can cause index corruption, managing your postgresql.conf and implementing custom data types. Subscribe at https://www.scalingpostgres.com to get notified of new episodes. Links for this episode: https://www.zdnet.com/article/pgminer-botnet-attacks-weakly-secured-postgresql-databases/ https://www.citusdata.com/blog/2020/12/12/dont-let-collation-versions-corrupt-your-postgresql-indexes/ https://www.ongres.com/blog/repository-tuning-guide-api-postgresql-conf/ https://pganalyze.com/blog/custom-postgres-data-types-django-python https://www.ongres.com/blog/free-1gb-postgres-database-on-aws-cloudshell/ https://info.crunchydata.com/blog/postgis-raster-and-crunchy-bridge https://www.cybertec-postgresql.com/en/postgresql-exclusive-cron-jobs-using-pg_timetable-scheduler/

In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we discuss a Mongo to Postgres migration, the best way to bulk load data, running an update vs. an upgrade and benchmarks for UUIDs. Subscribe at https://www.scalingpostgres.com to get notified of new episodes. Links for this episode: https://blog.coinbase.com/seamless-mongodb-to-postgresql-migration-127735cc989c https://www.highgo.ca/2020/12/08/bulk-loading-into-postgresql-options-and-comparison/ https://www.cybertec-postgresql.com/en/upgrading-and-updating-postgresql/ https://shusson.info/post/benchmark-v4-uuid-generation-in-postgres https://info.crunchydata.com/blog/using-pl/pgsql-to-calculate-new-postgres-columns https://www.highgo.ca/2020/12/08/whats-the-special-for-logical-level-of-postgresql-wal/ https://info.crunchydata.com/blog/waiting-for-postgis-3.1-geos-3.9 https://blog.rustprooflabs.com/2020/12/osm2gpsql-flex-output-to-postgis https://postgresql.life/post/carole_arnaud/

In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we discuss Microsoft SQL server compatibility, the performance of time series DBs, DB feature casualties and how to clean up BLOBs. Subscribe at https://www.scalingpostgres.com to get notified of new episodes. Links for this episode: https://www.ongres.com/blog/aws_announces_open_source_postgres_with_sql_server_compatibility/ https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/opensource/want-more-postgresql-you-just-might-like-babelfish/ https://blog.timescale.com/blog/timescaledb-vs-amazon-timestream-6000x-higher-inserts-175x-faster-queries-220x-cheaper/ https://brandur.org/large-database-casualties https://www.cybertec-postgresql.com/en/blob-cleanup-in-postgresql/ https://www.enterprisedb.com/blog/infographic-5-things-include-your-postgresql-security-checklist https://www.revenuecat.com/blog/pgbouncer-on-aws-ecs https://www.percona.com/blog/2020/12/01/how-pgbackrest-is-addressing-slow-postgresql-wal-archiving-using-asynchronous-feature/ https://info.crunchydata.com/blog