Transaction Isolation in Postgres, Explained — Despite how old the concept of database transactions is, they continue to trip up even the most assiduous of developers, with the role of isolation in affecting how concurrent transactions interact adding another dimension of complexity. Gwen does a good job in this primer on the topic.

Gwen Shapira

Broken Foreign Keys: How Can That Happen? — “There are surprisingly many ways to end up with broken foreign keys in PostgreSQL,” says Laurenz, who shows off a few such ways here. There are some details to be aware of that may prove valuable to remember if your foreign keys ever turn sour.

Laurenz Albe

PostgreSQL Basics with Ryan Booz — In this series of articles, Ryan Booz will help new PostgreSQL users get to grips with the basics starting with roles and privileges.

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📊  The Full 2023 State of PostgreSQL Survey Results — Just a week after they gave us a sneak peak at the results of their latest survey, Timescale has dropped the full report and raw (but anonymized) data from the 888 respondents.

Timescale

Working with GPS Data in PostGIS — A practical, step-by-step walkthrough for importing and refining GPS data in PostGIS, focusing on removing inaccuracies and enhancing quality for practical use, complete with code and examples.

Ryan Lambert

pg_idkit: An Extension for Generating IDs — A Rust-built extension that can generate a myriad of different unique ID schemes from UUIDs to NanoIDs and ksuids. It’s mature and happy in production. The author says: “I just put a bunch of elbow grease into the semi-automated release process and making sure it was easy to run the extension in a container, as an RPM, and with a regular install on glibc based systems.”

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pg_sparse: Sparse Vector Similarity Search in Postgres — ParadeDB is an open source ElasticSearch alternative built on Postgres and they’ve created an extension (forked from pgvector) to store and work with sparse vectors in Postgres to extend it further: “pg_sparse is to sparse vectors what pgvector is to dense vectors.”

ParadeDB

sqlauthz: A Declarative Permissions Management Approach — A tool that enables you to manage permissions in Postgres in a declarative way using the Polar language. Note that it’s considered experimental

Cam Feenstra

🪐  Q3C: Extension for Spatial Indexing on a Sphere — My astronomical knowledge is weak, but apparently this extension is useful for working with the position of astronomical objects upon the celestial sphere. Maybe.

Sergey Koposov

Key Postgres Extensions Every Developer Must Know When Migrating from Oracle — A handy roundup.

Deepak Mahto