Statistics on Expression Indexes

Most people know that Postgres allows the creation of indexes on expressions. This is helpful if you need index lookups of expressions used in where clauses.
March 22, 2017

Controlling Autovacuum

Unlike other database systems, Postgres makes the cleanup process visible and tunable to users. Autovacuum performs recycling of old rows and updates optimizer statistics. It appears in ps command output...
January 09, 2017

How to Be the Master of Your Database Domain

The increasing deployment of Postgres has brought about new demands for features, capabilities, and tools from developers and database administrators. As the leading Postgres database platform company, EnterpriseDB® (EDB™) works...
November 16, 2016

Analyzing Postgres Adoption

As an open source project, the Postgres community has always had great difficulty in measuring many aspects of Postgres adoption. For example, how many people use Postgres? We don't know...
November 16, 2016

Be Prepared for Prepare

Prepared statements are queries where the constants used in the query are separated from the query text. While this improves security by avoiding SQL injection attacks, it also allows repeatedly-executed...
November 16, 2016

Powering up Postgres with Performance Advances

The last five years have produced a significant increase in global organizations deploying Postgres across their organizations and calling for higher performance as they discovered the value and sought to...
May 25, 2016

The CRUD of JSON in PostgreSQL

Today’s connected enterprise requires a single database that can handle both structured and unstructured data efficiently and that adapts dynamically to swiftly changing and emerging data types. For many organizations...
April 07, 2016