Lexical Scanning in PostgreSQL

Like in the parable of the Blind Men and an Elephant, Postgres code can look like many different applications of computer science depending on where you look: operating systems, transactions...
August 20, 2020

Postgres Vacuuming Through Pictures [Webinar]

Vacuuming is a key feature of PostgreSQL databases to keep databases healthy and optimized. When enabled, autovacuum conserves space by removing obsolete disk usage and optimizes database performance by speeding...
August 20, 2020

Webinar: PostgreSQL on Windows [Follow Up]

PostgreSQL is a powerful database and supports multiple operating systems. Windows is a first-class example of PostgreSQL supported platforms. In order to explore this topic in detail, 2ndQuadrant arranged a...
August 17, 2020

NSS on Windows for PostgreSQL development

Daniel Gustafsson has done some terrific work on using NSS as an alternative TLS library to OpenSSL for PostgreSQL. I’ve done some work making that build and run on Windows...
August 05, 2020

Unicode normalization in PostgreSQL 13

Unicode equivalence Unicode is a complicated beast. One of its numerous peculiar features is that different sequences of codepoints can be equal. This is not the case in legacy encodings...
July 23, 2020