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Issue 196 — March 1, 2017
A Deep Dive Into Postgres Stats with pg_stat_database
Alexey digs deeper into many of the catalog tables and stats that are already recorded, including cache hit ratio, deadlocks, and load.
Alexey Lesovsky
Experimenting with Scaling and Full Parallelism in Postgres
Some of the issues behind scaling Postgres to querying tables containing huge numbers of rows.
Hans-Juergen Schoenig   #tutorial 
Benchmarking Query Parallelization on a 72 Core Machine
Postgres 9.6 added support for parallelizing some query operations and armed with a 72 core server, David Rowley set out to see if all 72 cores would come in handy.
David Rowley   #opinion 
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Clever Cloud    #sponsored 
New Postgres 10 Features: Logical Replication & Partitioning
We’re still months away from Postgres 10, but the likely headline feature is already known: logical replication and partitioning.
Emanuel Calvo
Eliminating a 2nd Seq Scan When Deriving A New Table
.. is slower than accepting the second table scan (unless the table can’t fit into memory).
Stack Exchange
Generating Custom Sequences in Postgres
Sequences are used by default in Postgres for primary keys, but as highlighted here there’s more you can do with them if needed (in certain use cases such as common with multi-tenant apps).
Vic Cherubini
General Availability for EDB Postgres Platform 2017
EnterpriseDB   #news 
Modeling Status Updates on PostgreSQL using JSON
Taking advantage of PostgreSQL’s support of JSON to overcome a traceability constraint.
Alexis Hevia   #tutorial 
Improving Linux System Performance with I/O Scheduler Tuning
Adjusting a Linux I/O scheduler to get the best performance and then measuring the impact of those changes with pgbench.
Ben Cane   #tutorial 
Calculating Summaries with Histogram Frequency Distributions in SQL
Silota inc   #tutorial 
Get Instant REST APIs for Postgres
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DreamFactory    #sponsored 
Pgx: A Pure Go Postgres Client Library
Jack Christensen   #code 
pg-large-object: 'Large Object' Support for Postgres in Node
Store files/objects up to 4 TiB in size.
Joris van der Wel   #code 
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