#592 — March 13, 2025 |
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Postgres Weekly |
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1 Trillion Rows in Citus? — “Postgres scales,” but just how far does that go? Hans-Jürgen decided to find out, running a little (or is it big?) experiment to see if a 1 trillion row table is even achievable. Hans-Jürgen Schönig |
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❌ Ways to Cancel Queries in Postgres — If you’ve got a query or two hogging Postgres’s resources, terminating them is an option, and there are several ways to go about it. Petr Kada |
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Postgres Gets a Self-Join Elimination Optimization — Several years ago, someone suggested a join optimization where redundant inner self-joins (often added by ORMs) can be removed under certain conditions. This so-called Self-Join Elimination (SJE) optimization has now been committed to Postgres and is explained in this GitHub commit. Postgres Repo |
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📄 Waiting for Postgres 18: Allow Parallel 📄 Waiting for Postgres 18: Allow 📄 When HASH Partitioning Works Better Than RANGE Umair Shahid |
🛠 Code and Tools |
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Introducing pgNow: A Point-in-Time Diagnostic Tool — A free (but not open – it’s in preview behind an email wall) cross-platform desktop tool created by Redgate to highlight and analyze live data about queries, indexes, configuration settings, and other important elements of a Postgres cluster’s operation. Even if you don’t grab it, Ryan gives a thorough overview of what it offers here. Ryan Booz |
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