Everyone has their own style, unfortunately, on how they edit postgresql.conf. Some like to uncomment specific values and edit them at the point they appear in the default file, some like to tack overrides onto the end… and some do a mixture of those (don’t do that).
My personal preference is to leave everything in the default file commented,
I’ve noticed an increasing tendency in PostgreSQL users to over-index tables, often constructing very complex partial indexes to try to speed up very particular queries.
Be careful about doing this. Not only do additional indexes increase the plan time, they greatly increase insert time.
By way of example, I created a table with a single bigint column, and
The slides from my talk at PG Day at FOSDEM 2016 are now available.
The PostgreSQL statistics collector generates a lot of very important statistics about the state of the database. If it’s not working, autovacuum doesn’t work, among other problems. But it does generate a lot of write activity, and by default, that goes back onto the database volume.
Instead, always set stats_temp_directory to point to a RAM disk (which has to
I’ll be speaking about PostgreSQL High Availability at PGDay 2016 at FOSDEM.
The slides from my presentation, JSON Home Improvement at SCALE 14x, are now available.
More as an example than anything else, I wanted a function that would take two JSONB objects in PostgreSQL, and return how the left-hand side differs from the right-hand side. This means any key that is in the left but not in the right would be returned, along with any key whose value on the left is different from the
I gave a talk earlier this week about the new features in PostgreSQL 9.5. The headline feature, of course, is the new INSERT ... ON CONFLICT clause, aka “Upsert,” which allows an INSERT that has a key conflict to do an UPDATE (or just ignore the insert) instead.
A perfectly reasonable question was: “Does this work on COPY”?
How much and what to log in PostgreSQL is something that doesn’t really admit a single solution. Logging every connection can swamp a server, as can too low a setting of log_min_statement_duration. But there are two settings I always turn on: log_lock_waits, and log_temp_files (with log_temp_files being set to 0).
I’ll be presenting at the January San Francisco PostgreSQL Users’ Group meeting on what’s new in PostgreSQL 9.5. I hope you can join us!