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PostgreSQL Berlin July 2024 Meetup

On July 16th, 2024, we had the PostgreSQL July Meetup in Berlin. Adjust hosted and Neon sponsored the Meetup in their Berlin Headquarter at Prenzlauer Berg, near the TV Tower.

Changes to the public schema in PostgreSQL 15 and how to handle upgrades

In September 2021, a patch for the upcoming PostgreSQL version 15 was committed which introduces a visible change for users: the 'CREATE' privilege for the 'public' schema is no longer set by default.

2 + 2 * 4 = 16?

Jens Kubieziel recently posted a Twitter poll: 2 + 2 * 4

My PostgreSQL database is empty!

The one thing I like to do is challenge PostgreSQL - and readers - to the extreme. A while ago I posted about the Beer o'clock. Building Zoé was another interesting example. And at some point I blog about Dancing with the Stars as well. Today it's all about nothing. Empty. Where is all the data gone?

It's beer o'clock for PostgreSQL

A couple days ago Devrim forked PostgreSQL to get a beer. That effort is of course laudable, but a bit extreme. PostgreSQL is very extensible, and allows to implement a beer now clock with just a few easy steps.

Not so equal texts in PostgreSQL - and how to compare texts in a more elaborate way

Christophe Pettus posted an interesting challenge. Two strings which on the surface look equal, but if you ask PostgreSQL to compare them, they are not equal.