XMLTABLE in PostgreSQL

I just committed a patch by Pavel Stěhule that adds the XMLTABLE functionality to PostgreSQL 10. XMLTABLE is a very useful feature dictated by the SQL/XML standard, that lets you...
March 08, 2017

Going Deep on Stats

Postgres includes lots of monitoring tools that allow you to see what is happening, but there are a few settings that really go into detail, e.g. log_statement_stats: SET client_min_messages =...
February 28, 2017

Looking forward to PGConf India 2017

It has taken a lot of planning and efforts, but I’m happy to see that PGConf India 2017 is coming along very well and promises to be a great event...
February 21, 2017

Corruption in CREATE INDEX CONCURRENTLY

Two weeks back we discovered an ancient bug in PostgreSQL which may cause index corruption when index is built via CREATE INDEX CONCURRENTLY (aka CIC). All supported releases of PostgreSQL...
February 15, 2017

Problem with Buildfarm registrations fixed

Recently we switched the PostgreSQL Buildfarm to use https for its front-facing web transactions. That’s worked pretty well, but one thing got broken in the change. The registration page uses...
February 09, 2017

Dataloss at GitLab

GitLab, thanks for using PostgreSQL 9.6 and its replication and backup facilities. We’re sorry that you lost your database: http://about.gitlab.com/2017/02/01/gitlab-dot-com-database-incident/ Thank you for posting this publicly to allow us to...
February 01, 2017