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Here is how I install the latest Docker version on Oracle Linux 7. You find several blog posts about it which all install ‘docker-engine’. But things move fast in this agile world and docker package name has changed. The Community Edition is now ‘docker-ce’ and you want this one to run the latest version.
Another partitioning improvement for PostgreSQL 11: Insert…on conflict is now supported (for most cases) in PostgreSQL 11 thanks to this commit. Lets see how it works.
A long time ago, ODA referred to the only model that existed (nearly). Actually, not so long time ago, as ODA X3, X4 and X5 were released between 2013 and 2015. And it was quite the same hardware. Now there is 3 current models in the X7 range, and they were 4 in the previous generation (X6). ODA is now divided in 2 main lines. High Availability models, understand 2 nodes and a shared storage…
Up to PostgreSQL 10 the wal segment size was fixed once PostgreSQL was compiled and installed. When you wanted to have something else than the default you needed to tell that to the configure command when building from source, e.g. postgres@pgbox:/home/postgres/postgresql/ [PGDEV] ./configure –with-wal-segsize=64MB For PostgreSQL 11 two commits landed (1 and 2) which change this. Lets have a look.
Yes, sounds strange, but exactly this is what we faced today. In the end it is clear and not strange anymore but for a moment we really thought we are hitting a bug in the operating system, which was RedHat 7.4. For the little demo for this post I’ll use CentOS 7.4 but this should not really matter. Lets go.
Every time you send a SQL statement to PostgreSQL it must be parsed. Parsing is fast, yes, but parsing the same statement a thousand times can quickly sum up to quite some time the database could spend for something else. To avoid that PostgreSQL comes with the prepare statement. Using that you can avoid parsing of statements and only planning and executing will happen. Lets see how that works.
Although PostgreSQL 10 integrate native logical replication (have a look here or here), it is always interesting to be aware of alternative solutions to the available in-core features. One of those is called pglogical. It’s a Postgres extension developed by 2ndQuadrant, major contributor to PostgreSQL development. The goal of this blog post is to discover how to install pglogical and configure it in order to generate simple logical replication cases. Installation To get the extension…
In the last post about partitioning improvements in PostgreSQL 11 we talked about unique indexes and primary keys on partitioned tables. Both did not work in PostgreSQL 10 but now do in PostgreSQL 11. Another operation that did not work in PostgreSQL 10 and does now in PostgreSQL 11 is: Updating the partition key, which means that a row will move from one partition to another. Lets have a look at that.
PostgreSQL 10 comes with partition support. But Hash Partitioning was not supported. PostgreSQL 11 will support Hash Partition. In the documentation we can read The table is partitioned by specifying a modulus and a remainder for each partition. Each partition will hold the rows for which the hash value of the partition key divided by the specified modulus will produce the specified remainder. For this demonstration let’s create a table with a hash partition drop…
Yesterday, while being at a customer, an interesting question popped up: What is the maximum of in list values in PostgreSQL? I couldn’t answer although I never read somewhere that there is a limit. The following is for fun only and I am not saying that creating huge in lists is a good idea. Lets go.
When declarative partitioning was introduced with PostgreSQL 10 this was a big step forward. But as always with big new features some things do not work in PostgreSQL 10 which now get resolved in PostgreSQL 11. One of those are local partitioned indexes. To make it easier to understand lets start with an example in PostgreSQL 10.
Recently I came over that commit and wondered what that is about. The answer is quite simple but I didn’t know that this issue existed. Basically it is about how progress messages are written to screen and how they are written to a file. Lets have a look.
