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Issue 145 — February 24, 2016
Four PostgreSQL Tips
Postgres is packed with so many useful features that it makes it hard to keep up with everything you may find beneficial. Here’s one list of four incredibly useful tips that may come in handy the next time you’re running a query.
Jake Yesbeck
Replacing EAV with JSONB in PostgreSQL
The practical examples of using JSONB are continuing to arrive. This post demonstrates an old and new way of doing an entity-attribute-value data structure directly in Postgres.
Jeroen Coussement   #code 
Scan and aggregate on a 81 GB table in 5 seconds!
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Vitesse Data, Inc.​    #sponsored 
Sorting Through The Ages [PDF]
Often when you execute a query there’s some form of sort that’s executed under the covers. Here’s an amazing slide-based tour of the development of sorting functionality and the impact made over the years.
postgresql.​org
Postgres-XL 9.5 R1 Beta1 Announced
Postgres-XL is a massively parallel database built on top of, and very closely compatible with, PostgreSQL 9.5.
2ndQuadrant
Foreign Data Wrappers with PostgreSQL and PHP
Foreign Data Wrappers and extensions continue to allow Postgres to be more than just a relational database. Here’s a look at one example of how to use a FDW with PHP.
Gonzalo Ayuso
Side Effects of Using .first_or_create! at Scale in Rails
Frameworks can make lives easier and help you avoid the details, but sometimes the out-of-box behavior becomes problematic when you have any sizable amount of data. Here’s an example of that in Rails.
Adrian Serafin
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