Set application_name in every connection string. It's the cheapest observability win PostgreSQL offers—one GUC that makes 2am debugging actually possible.
PostgreSQL 19 brings self-tuning worker pools and read-ahead improvements to async I/O, plus EXPLAIN ANALYZE (IO) to finally see what's happening under the…
A GUC with a dire warning: `allow_system_table_mods` lets superusers edit PostgreSQL's system catalogs, and the docs say it can cause irretrievable data loss.
PostgreSQL 19 proposes `pg_plan_advice`: a pluggable plan-advice mechanism that lets you capture plan shapes via EXPLAIN and apply them without touching SQL.
Snowflake's pg_lake and Databricks' Lakebase both bridge Postgres and the lakehouse, but they solve different problems.
Huge pages are a second configuration step that most people skip, but they're essential for any Postgres instance with serious shared_buffers.
Set application_name in every connection string. It's the cheapest observability win PostgreSQL offers—one GUC that makes 2am debugging actually possible.
Linux 7.0 doesn't halve Postgres throughput—but a 96-vCPU benchmark without huge pages does.
A GUC with a dire warning: `allow_system_table_mods` lets superusers edit PostgreSQL's system catalogs, and the docs say it can cause irretrievable data loss.
Hiring a PostgreSQL consultant without giving them database access defeats the purpose.
This obscure PostgreSQL setting exists only for the test suite to simulate replication on a single machine. You will never need it in production.
PostgreSQL 17 added allow_alter_system to prevent accidental configuration drift when superusers reach for ALTER SYSTEM instead of your configuration…