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PGSQL Phriday #0014 - PostgreSQL Events

Fri, 01 Dec 2023 17:16:02 +0100

Pavlo Golub is hosting this month’s PGSQL Phriday. The topic is “PostgreSQL Events”.

PGSQL Phriday #008 – pg_stat_statements

Sat, 06 May 2023 18:49:00 +0200

The topic for this month’s PGSQL Phriday blogging challenge is: pg_stat_statement. And Michael Christofides gave me a perfect opener in his invitation.

For anyone who doesn’t know, I’m running a weekly interview series with people from the PostgreSQL community. It’s called “PostgreSQL Person of the Week”. One of the questions in the default set I give everyone is:

PGSQL Phriday #007 – Triggers for tracking changes in a table

Mon, 10 Apr 2023 17:58:00 +0200

This month’s #PGSQLPhriday is hosted by Lætita Avrot, and she asks about triggers.

History time. Shortly after I started using PostgreSQL, I had a need to track changes in tables. Back then - this was the early version 7.x days - there was no such option available. I set out to write a tool for it. The logical choice to do that was to pick triggers to implement this. Today the world is different, PostgreSQL gained replication, and along with this, one can hook tools into the replication and stream all the changes. Back then there was no replication.

PGSqlPhriday #006: One Thing You Wish You Knew While Learning PostgreSQL: psql commands

Sun, 05 Mar 2023 19:24:00 +0100

For this month’s #PGSQLPhriday, Grant Fritchey asks: What is the one thing you wish you knew while you learn PostgreSQL.

Relational and Non-relational Data: PGSQL Phriday #005

Sun, 29 Jan 2023 18:33:00 +0100

Ryan Lambert asks in this month’s PGSQL Phriday:

What non-relational data do you store in Postgres and how do you use it?
Have you attempted non-relational uses of Postgres that did not work well? What was the problem?
What are the biggest challenges with your data, whatever its structure?
Bonus: How do you define non-relational data?

PGSQL Phriday #004: PostgreSQL and Software Development

Sun, 01 Jan 2023 23:21:00 +0100

Henrietta Dombrovskaya asks about Software Development and PostgreSQL. That’s a very broad topic.

Not being a big developer for myself, and only occasionally submitting patches here and there, I nevertheless have a vast amount of data available on the topic: the “PostgreSQL Person of the Week” interviews! There are a few questions in the interviews which relate to this topic:

PGSQL Phriday #003: What is the PostgreSQL Community to me

Sun, 04 Dec 2022 22:42:00 +0100

Pat Wright is running this month’s #PGSQLPhriday, and the topic is “What is the PostgreSQL Community to you?”

The answer for me is very versatile, and covers quite a lot. Took me a moment to gather the facets, and likely I’m still missing some parts.

The PostgreSQL community for me is friends, databases, events, learning, speaking, teaching, writing, and much more.

PGSQL Phriday #002 Summary: PostgreSQL Backup and Restore

Tue, 08 Nov 2022 23:45:00 +0100

Last week for “PGSQL Phriday” I posted the following task:

Describe how you do backups for your PostgreSQL databases.

And I added a bonus question: Is pg_dump a backup tool?

PGSQL Phriday #002: PostgreSQL Backup and Restore

Mon, 31 Oct 2022 14:59:00 +0100

Thanks to Ryan Booz we now have the #PGSQLPhriday blogging series. The second edition is about backups. And of course also about restore.

PGSQL Phriday #001: Two truths and a lie

Fri, 07 Oct 2022 18:42:00 +0200

Uh, what is this #PGSQLPhriday thing about? Everyone is writing blog posts about this today … For details, please read the introduction from Ryan Booz.

This month’s topic: pick your three favorite or most important best pratices for #PostgreSQL. Tell them in a form that two are true, one is a lie. See if you can spot which one is true and which one is false. The resolution is at the end of this blog posting.