/PostgreSQL

Vectors Are In The New JSON In PostgresQL

- Jonathon Katz tl;dr: “This in itself is an interesting statement, given vectors are a well-studied mathematical structure, and JSON is a data interchange format. And yet in the world of data storage and retrieval, both of these data representations have become the lingua franca of their domains and are either essential, or soon-to-be-essential, ingredients in modern application development. And if current trends continue, vectors will be as crucial as JSON is for building applications.”

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Understanding Database Indexes In PostgreSQL

- Pawel Dąbrowski tl;dr: “This article will help you organize your knowledge and remind you about good practices. SQL is a declarative language meaning it tells the database what we want to do but not how to achieve it. The database engine decides how to pull data. We can help the query planner by using indexes.”

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Nine Ways To Shoot Yourself In The Foot With PostgreSQL

- Phil Booth tl;dr: (1) Keep the default value for work\_mem. (2) Push application logic into Postgres functions and procedures. (3) Use lots of triggers. (4) Use NOTIFY heavily. And more.

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Postgres: The Graph Database You Didn't Know You Had

- Dylan Paulus tl;dr: Dylan shows us how we can store and query graph data structures in Postgres, something he did at his previous job to dynamically generate work instructions on a manufacturing line. “Based on parameters given, and rules defined on each edge, we could generate the correct document by traversing a graph stored entirely in Postgres.”

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PSQL Tips

tl;dr: 43 tips starting with: (1) If you want to simply send a single line command to psql and exit, try using the -c or --command=command flag. (2) You can combine several -c or --command=command flags to execute several commands or queries. (3) With the --csv flag, psql will display the result as a csv file. And more.

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Just Use Postgres For Everything

- Stephan Schmidt tl;dr: "One way to simplify your stack and reduce the moving parts, speed up development, lower the risk and deliver more features in your startup is “Use Postgres for everything”. Postgres can replace - up to millions of users - many backend technologies, Kafka, RabbitMQ, Mongo and Redis among them." Stephan gives explicit examples how.

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Six Findings We Rely On When Managing PostgreSQL Indexes

- Billy Ceskavich tl;dr: "A rough guide on how to think through indexing strategy in most Postgres databases: (1) Every index has a read and write cost. Postgres considers these costs for each query to determine which indexes to use. (2) The more selective your index, the more efficient it becomes to read data from the table itself. But, more selective indexes (multicolumn indexes, sorted indexes, partial indexes) require specific query patterns to maximize this efficiency." And more.

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Scaling PostgresML To 1 Million Requests Per Second

- Lev Kokotov tl;dr: "In this post, we'll discuss how we horizontally scale PostgresML to achieve more than 1 million XGBoost predictions per second on commodity hardware.

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PostgreSQL 15 Released!

tl;dr: "PostgreSQL 15 builds on the performance improvements of recent releases with noticeable gains for managing workloads in both local and distributed deployments, including improved sorting. This release improves the developer experience with the addition of the popular MERGE command, and adds more capabilities for observing the state of the database."

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6 Simple And Useful PostgreSQL Features That I Wish I Knew When I Started

- Marat Badykov tl;dr: "In this article, I will try to review 6 PostgreSql traits that seem to me the most important and easy-usable in a clear and brief way: (1) Identity. (2) COALESCE + NULLIF. (3) Grouping set, rollup, cube. (4) Common Table Expression. (5) Domains. (6) USING keyword.

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