#277 — October 10, 2018

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Postgres Weekly

PostGraphile v4 Released: A GraphQL API for Your Database — Execute one command (or mount one Node.js middleware) and get a high-performance GraphQL API for your database.

Benjie Gillam

The Versatile INSERT — A look at ‘some of the more interesting things’ you can do with INSERT in Postgres, beyond just adding a single row to a table, of course.

RapidLoop

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Datadog sponsor

Dynamic Monitoring of Postgres Instances using pg_toppg_top is an open source tool for monitoring Postgres processes (a la Unix top).

Brian Fehrle

Select Star SQL: An Interactive SQL Tutorial — Want to get a bit better at SQL? This interactive online guide will give you some practical experience and is oriented, intriguingly, around querying a dataset of death row inmates.

Zi Chong Kao

Working with Unions in Postgres — A primer with examples on using the UNION and UNION ALL operators when you need to unify results from multiple tables or queries.

Gary Sahota

An Example of Moving a Tablespace — Tablespaces let you define where various database objects are stored on the underlying file system - but what if you want to move one?

Bruce Momjian

Detailed Logging for Enterprise-Grade Postgres — A look at some of the config parameters you can tweak to get more detailed logs.

Fernando Laudares Camargos

How to Manage Prometheus High-Availability with Postgres and TimescaleDBPrometheus is a popular open source monitoring system.

Niksa Jakovljevic

An Express.js, Sequelize, and Postgres Association Tutorial — If you want to work with Postgres from a Node.js webapp, this could be a handy primer.

Didin Jamaludin

Improving Sort Performance — Shows how Postgres sorts can be tuned.

Hans-Jürgen Schönig

Comparing EDB Postgres Platform to Self-Supported PostgreSQL — Watch the video.

EnterpriseDB sponsor

pspg: An Alternative Pager for Postgres's psql Client — Replaces less and brings in support for tabular data.

Pavel Stehule

tic-tac-toe.sql: Tic Tac Toe Implemented in SQL

Mariusz Krynski

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