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Issue 227 — October 4, 2017
A Deep Dive into Postgres Concurrency
An easy to follow 50 minute talk from PostgresOpen Silicon Valley 2017 on different forms of concurrency and how Postgres works with them.
Tejas Manohar   #video 
Fermi Estimates on Postgres Performance
A simplified guide for what you should expect in terms of the read performance and ingest performance for queries in Postgres.
Samay Sharma
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Locking Down Permissions in Postgres and on Redshift
Users are automatically granted permissions due to their membership in a built-in role called PUBLIC.
Buck Ryan
Swap Two Column Values in SQL
Want to swap the order of a few columns without having to drop/remove or re-write the whole table? Part 2 here.
Josh Branchaud
Getting Started with pgRouting to Create Location Paths
pgRouting is useful if you’re already using PostGIS. It can be handy for helping find various paths and routes between locations, here’s a primer on getting started with it.
Compose
A Look at PERCENT_RANK vs CUME_DIST
cume_dist computes the %age of rows that are ‘less than or equal,’ while percent_rank computes those that are ‘less than’ the current row, except it also assumes the current row isn’t in the partition.
Bruce Momjian
Understanding Caching in Postgres - An In-Depth Guide
A golden oldie from last year that might be worth revisiting.
Madusudanan B N
pglogical and Postgres 10 Partitions
A look at Postgres 10’s logical replication and partitioning support, how it plays with pglogical, and how it’s still evolving.
2ndQuadrant
Using the Invisible 'xmin' Column in Queries
Select for update is usually what you want when grabbing a value that you’re going to update right after, but here we see where using xmin could be a valid approach.
momjian.​us
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PGAudit: An Auditing Extension for Postgres
Provides the tools needed to produce audit logs required to pass government, financial, or ISO certification audits.
PostgreSQL Global Development Group   #tools 
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