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News: PostgreSQL 11 Released!
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We're honored by the recognition and are very happy that people enjoy using @PostgreSQL ! The @PostgreSQL community will continue working hard on building the world's most advanced open source relational database.
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#PostgreSQL is the DBMS of the Year for the second year in a row @postgresql
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Tomorrow, the @PostgreSQL 11 RC (Release Candidate) 1 is made available. If all goes well, PostgreSQL 11 will be made generally available on October 18. This would not be possible without the hard work of everyone who developed, tested, and contributed to the project. Thank you!
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What's this? @postgresql has a brand new website? And it's mobile-friendly? Sounds web scale! Check out the new
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Sometimes what seems like a good idea, isn't! The community has collected a list of gotchas to beware of on the wiki.
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Many applications use pagination for display purposes, and a common technique is to use "OFFSET" in your query, but are there better ways to do it? @MarkusWinand demonstrates some alternatives to using OFFSET:
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A big part of an open source community is maintaining the project infrastructure. Today, the @PostgreSQL website was migrated from using Python 2 to Python 3 to ensure we can continue to support the modern requirements of the community:
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News: PostgreSQL 12.4, 11.9, 10.14, 9.6.19, 9.5.23, and 13 Beta 3 Released!
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News: PostgreSQL 12.2, 11.7, 10.12, 9.6.17, 9.5.21, and 9.4.26 Released!
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4 years
The PostgreSQL Community would like to extend its appreciation to all the DBAs out there. ❤️🐘 Happy DBA Appreciation Day!
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6 years
Did you know in @PostgreSQL 11, you can now use a "web search" style query with PostgreSQL's full text search functionality? Take a look at the new "websearch_to_tsquery" function, documented here:
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`psql @postgresql ` psql (10.4) Type "help" for help @postgresql => SELECT thanks(); thanks -------- We've reached 5432 followers! Thank you for supporting our community twitter feed - we're excited to keep providing helpful content around our database and open source community.
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Thanks for the recognition! @PostgreSQL owes its success to its dedicated community of developers, advocates, and users who help make our free and open source database software better every day! Give @PostgreSQL a try:
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PostgreSQL is the DBMS of the Year @PostgreSQL #PostgreSQL
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4 years
News: PostgreSQL 12.1, 11.6, 10.11, 9.6.16, 9.5.20, and 9.4.25 Released!
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5 years
The first release candidate for @PostgreSQL 12 is scheduled for September 26. The GA is tentatively scheduled for October 3. Start catching up on all the new features that will be coming up in the latest release of PostgreSQL!
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6 years
Did you know that @PostgreSQL lets you set the storage mode for individual columns (e.g. inline vs. TOAST, compressed vs. uncompressed)? @pwramsey demonstrates how modifying the storage mode on a column boosts a @PostGIS query's performance by 500%:
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News: PostgreSQL 11.4, 10.9, 9.6.14, 9.5.18, 9.4.23, and 12 Beta 2 Released!
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What are "materialized views" and how do they work in @postgresql ? @steph_baltus wrote up a guide for how she used materialized views in her application as well as advice for using them in production:
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Coming in @PostgreSQL 12: No more "recovery.conf" file: all those settings are now set in the main configuration file. A "recovery" or "standby" instance can be initiated with a "recovery.signal" or "standby.signal" file! See the commit here:
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6 years
When you create and use an index @postgresql , what is the database actually doing? @louisemeta 's presentation explains how each index works, with a crocodile there to help tell the story:
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News: PostgreSQL 11.3, 10.8, 9.6.13, 9.5.17, and 9.4.22 Released!
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As the year winds down, why not study how @PostgreSQL processes a query? @suzuki_hironobu provides a detailed guide with several examples of how queries are handled internally in PostgreSQL:
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4 years
News: PostgreSQL 13 Beta 2 Released!
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The @PostgreSQL website now supports dark mode! Check it out and let us know what you think:
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News: PostgreSQL 11.5, 10.10, 9.6.15, 9.5.19, 9.4.24, and 12 Beta 3 Released!
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6 years
News: PostgreSQL 11 Beta 1 Released!
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5 years
pgloader is an open source tool that lets you load data from a variety of data sources in @PostgreSQL with support for parallelism. You can learn more about the project here and see if it can help you with your projects!
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6 years
It's true, using COPY is really fast for data ingestion in @postgresql ! Read how @danielfone turned a potential 16 hour data import into a 4 minute one:
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6 years
Congratulations to the new @postgresql committers! Etsuro Fujita Peter Geoghegan Amit Kapila Alexander Korotkov Thomas Munro Michael Paquier Tomas Vondra Read more here:
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pgcli is an open source command-line interface for PostgreSQL with syntax highlighting and additional autocompletion features.
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How does @PostgreSQL go beyond traditional SQL databases? @apatheticmagpie shares her slides from @pgconfeu on some of the unique features of PostgreSQL:
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Don't want to have your primary key to be an ordered sequence of integers that people can easily guess? @emerson_lackey shows how to use @postgresql to create random, unique integers for your PKs:
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The 2018 @postgresql Developer Meeting at @pgcon has concluded! You can read the meeting notes here: And of course, the annual developer photo!
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A common pitfall with @postgresql is to create a foreign key constraint, but forget to create an index, and then go perform a lot of lookups on that foreign key! Cameron Ellis demonstrates how to find foreign keys that are missing indexes:
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News: PostgreSQL 11 Beta 4 Released!
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The "feature freeze" for @postgresql 11 is in effect. The community will now be hard at work on making sure that all of the new features will meet the quality standards that @postgresql is known for in time for the release later this year!
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How do you upgrade @postgresql versions for a 50 terabyte database while minimizing downtime? Reinier Hassjes discusses his experience and the solution his team developed:
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Writing fast @postgresql queries can feel like an art, but understanding how to use tools like EXPLAIN and indexing features can help! @paveltiunov87 wrote up a case-study on using the above to optimize a query in a 10TB database:
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The @PostgreSQL Project is not possible without the generous support of our sponsors. The sponsorship committee recently voted to update the list to reflect the significant ongoing contributions of these organizations to @PostgreSQL : Thank you!
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Looking for some more information on getting started with @PostgreSQL , some tips & tricks, or want to test your @PostgreSQL knowledge? We've compiled a set of resources that range from one page guides, interactive exercises, and tutorials!
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Want to write complex but easy-to-understand @postgresql queries? @elmaddawg demonstrates how to do so, highlighting features such as subqueries, filtered aggregates, and window functions!
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What's better than @PostgreSQL 11? How about PostgreSQL 11.1? The first set of bug fixes will be made available this coming Thursday, November 8, along with bug fixes for the supported versions of PostgreSQL!
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There many ways to contribute to @PostgreSQL ! In addition to the core database, there are many software projects that power the infrastructure and advocacy efforts of the PostgreSQL project. We've put together a list of some of these projects here:
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Happy Anniversary! Today the official @PostgreSQL community account turns 1! A big thank you to our many wonderful followers and PostgreSQL enthusiasts for helping us to have a great year.
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Making changes to your @PostgreSQL schema in an highly active production environment requires some additional considerations. Read how Vineet Gopal and team automated their migration process:
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It's #FeatureFriday ! @PostgreSQL includes support for LATERAL JOINs. Classic use-case: Need the top-N for some set? SELECT * FROM server set CROSS JOIN LATERAL (SELECT * FROM log WHERE = log.server_id ORDER BY log.received_at DESC LIMIT 20) as topN;
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They say it is important to put comments in your code, but what about in your databases? @abdullahalger shows how you can add comments to your @postgresql tables, columns, and other database objects:
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Thank you for the recognition #OSCon ! The @PostgreSQL project could not achieve this without the hard work of our dedicated community that builds and advocates for the world's most advanced open source relational database!
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Lifetime achievement award at #oscon : @PostgreSQL .
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News: PostgreSQL 11 Beta 2 Released!
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The upcoming @postgresql 11 release adds more support for queries using "WINDOW" functions, but what exactly was added? @JavaOOQ wrote up an analysis of the new features and demonstrates how they work:
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You can use the LISTEN/NOTIFY in @postgresql to send asynchronous notifications in your applications! @citizen428 provides an example of how to combine this feature with websockets:
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News: PostgreSQL 10.5, 9.6.10, 9.5.14, 9.4.19, 9.3.24, and 11 Beta 3 Released!
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