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A lot of people use pgbench to benchmark a PostgreSQL instance and pgbench is also heavily used by the PostgreSQL developers. While declarative partitioning was introduced in PostgreSQL 10 there was no support for that in pgbench, even in the current version, which is PostgreSQL 12. With PostgreSQL 13, which is currently in development, this will change and pgbench will be able to create a partitioned pgbench_accounts tables you then can run your benchmark against.
One of the probably lesser known PostgreSQL parameters is check_function_bodies. If you know Oracle, then you for sure faced “invalid objects” a lot. In PostgreSQL, by default, there is nothing like an invalid object. That implies that you can not create a function or procedure which references an object that does not yet exist.
It is always a bit of a surprise that many people do not know peer authentication in PostgreSQL. You might ask why that is important as initdb creates a default pg_hba.conf which does not allow any connections from outside the PostgreSQL server. While that is true there is another important point to consider.
One of the major advantages of PostgreSQL conferences when you compare it to other conferences is, that you can listen to talks where the actual developers are presenting their work. You have questions about a feature, you want to know more about this or that: Just catch one of the developers and start to talk. It is as easy as that. Today it was even more impressive: Alvaro came to our booth and asked what…
Quite some time ago I blogged about how you could build your customzized PostgreSQL container by using a Dockerfile and Docker build. In the meantime Red Hat replaced Docker in OpenShift and SUSE replaced Docker as well in CaaS. As a consequence there need to be other ways of building containers and one of them is buildah. You can use buildah to build from a Docker file as well, but in this post we will…
Currently the Red Hat Forum 2019 in Zürich is ongoing and people just finished lunch before the more technical sessions are starting.
While community PostgreSQL 12 is in beta quite some time now (currently in beta 3) it usually takes some time until EDB EPAS will be available on top of the next major PostgreSQL release. Yesterday EDB finally released a beta and you can register for access here, release notes here. One of the new features is interval partitioning which you already might know from Oracle. Basically you do not need to create range partitions in…
From time to time you might require to reboot your AWS instances. Maye you applied some patches or for whatever reason. Rebooting an AWS instance can be done in several ways: You can of course do that directly from the AWS console. You can use the AWS command line utilities as well. If you want to schedule a reboot you can either do that using CloudWatch or you can use SSM Maintenance Windows for that….
One of the new features in PostgreSQL 10 was the introduction of stronger password authentication based on SCRAM-SHA-256. How can you migrate your existing users that currently use md5 authentication to the new method without any interruption? Actually that is quite easy, as you will see in a few moments, but there is one important point to consider: Not every client/driver does already support SCRAM-SHA-256 authentication so you need to check that before. Here is…
Usually you should use the data type that best fits the representation of your data in a relational database. But how many times did you see applications that store dates or numbers as text or dates as integers? This is not so uncommon as you might think and fixing that could be quite a challenge as you need to cast from one data type to another when you want to change the data type used…
