#562 — July 10, 2024 |
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pgPedia: A Postgres Encyclopedia of Sorts — An interesting, cleanly formatted wiki-esque reference guide to Postgres’ features and settings that complements the official documentation well. Well worth poking around a bit. Postgrespedia |
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🎧 Say Hello to the Talking Postgres Podcast — The Path to Citus Con podcast was created to promote Citus Con (now POSETTE) by way of interviews with speakers and other Postgres luminaries, but has turned into a great Postgres podcast generally. To reflect this growth, it’s had a rebrand. Claire Giordano (Microsoft) |
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Parallel Queries in Postgres — Support for running parts of a query in parallel (a.k.a. parallel queries) didn’t land in Postgres with a single big thump, so the feature is easily overlooked. Elizabeth gives us a quick primer. Elizabeth Christensen |
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A Gentle Introduction to Window Functions — A good, tight introduction focused on the essentials. Radim Marek |
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Crunchy Bridge Adds Iceberg to Postgres — Crunchy Data has extended its Crunchy Bridge for Analytics platform with support for querying Iceberg tables, complete with full query pushdown and powerful write-through caching. (Iceberg is a table format specifically for large analytic datasets.) Marco Slot (Crunchy Data) |
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📄 A Brief Guide to Auditing and Monitoring Access in Postgres Umair Shahid 📄 Automating Image Metadata Extraction with AWS Lambda, Go, and Postgres Hüseyin BABAL 📄 UUIDs as Primary Keys in Postgres Maciej Walkowiak 📄 Postgres Realtime Location Sharing with MapLibre – By way of Supabase Edge Functions. Thor Schaeff (Supabase) |
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ETL Helper 1.0: Python Library for Database to Database Transfers — One for the Pythonistas. Works with Postgres, SQLite, SQL Server and Oracle, and we love that it comes from the British Geological Survey. British Geological Survey |
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