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List PostgreSQL tables using extensions
Postgres has extensions, and that’s awesome! Of course as the author of CREATE EXTENSION I’m a little biased… just remember that the ability to extend …
Getting more out of PostgreSQL
Notes on SQL technique, data modeling, and PostgreSQL internals — from the author of The Art of PostgreSQL. New articles are built on the free Lab so you can run every query yourself.
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Postgres Connection Strings and psql
PostgreSQL connection strings embedded in your application can take two different forms: the key-value notation or the postgresql:// URI scheme. When it comes to using …
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The Art Of PostgreSQL
I did it again! Today I am releasing the new edition of my book, with a new title: “The Art of PostgreSQL”. I’m very happy (and quite excited) to declare my book as …
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Preventing SQL Injections
An SQL Injection is a security breach, one made famous by the Exploits of a Mom xkcd comic episode in which we read about little Bobby Tables: PostgreSQL implements a …
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Geolocation with PostgreSQL
We have loaded Open Street Map points of interests in the article The Most Popular Pub Names — which compares PostgreSQL with MongoDB for simple geographical queries, and …
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PostgreSQL Concurrency: an Article Series
PostgreSQL is a relational database management system. It’s even the world’s most advanced open source one of them. As such, as its core, Postgres solves …
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Scheduled Data Processing: How to use cron?
A previous article in the PostgreSQL Concurrency series covered how to manage concurrent retweets in an efficient way: in Computing and Caching, we learnt how to maintain …
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Batch Updates and Concurrency
This article fits in the PostgreSQL Concurrency series, where we installed a tweeter like application schema and had all the characters from Shakespeare’s A …
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PostgreSQL LISTEN/NOTIFY
This article fits in the PostgreSQL Concurrency series, where we installed a tweeter like application schema and had all the characters from Shakespeare’s A …
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PostgreSQL Event Based Processing
In the previous article of the series Modeling for Concurrency, we saw how to model your application for highly concurrent activity. It was a follow-up to the article …
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Computing and Caching
Let’s continue to dive in PostgreSQL Concurrency. In the previous article of the series, Modeling for Concurrency, we saw how to model your application for highly …
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Modeling for Concurrency
Let’s continue to dive in PostgreSQL Concurrency. Last week’s article PostgreSQL Concurrency: Isolation and Locking was a primer on PostgreSQL isolation and …