The Surprising Impact of Medium-Size Texts on Performance — You’ve got your small text (usernames, emails), large text (entire documents), and your ‘medium’ text (comments, descriptions).. While TOAST brings efficiencies to storing larger documents, medium-sized columns can make rows very wide and affect performance disproportionately. A rather neat deep dive complete with examples.

Haki Benita

30 Years of Continuous Postgres Development with Bruce Momjian — It’s a brief interview, but Bruce shares a few tidbits about the Postgres development process, quality, and how features make it in.

Scott Grant

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Tuning Your Postgres Database for High Write Loads — If you set up a database as a proof of concept or to fit an initially small workload, problems can occur once things scale up including warnings like “checkpoints are occurring too frequently”. What’s going on and what can be tweaked?

Tom Swartz

How Postgres Stores 'null' Values — Good news – you almost certainly don’t need to know this, but intrigue always gets the better of me..

Movead Li

Multicorn: Python Powered Foreign Data Wrappers — Mulitcorn is a FDW but which comes with a variety of customizable subwrappers (for things like SQLAlchemy, RSS, working with the file system, or SQLite) that you can adjust.. or write your own.

Kozea

pgFormatter: A Postgres SQL Syntax Beautifier — ..that can work from the terminal or on a Web server via CGI. Demo here.

Gilles Darold

Prisma’s Data Guide: PostgreSQL — Introductory PostgreSQL tutorials: learn how to configure and use Postgres to take advantage of its best features.

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