Introduction: Why You Need Better PostgreSQL Extension Development Tools When I first started writing PostgreSQL extensions in C, I treated them like small shared libraries with a SQL wrapper. That mindset worked for simple functions, but it completely fell apart… Read More »Top 7 Best PostgreSQL Extension Development Tools for C Developers
Introduction: Why PostgreSQL Indexing Strategies Matter Every time I tune a slow PostgreSQL query, I almost always end up looking at indexes first. The difference between a well-chosen index and a mismatched one can be the difference between millisecond responses… Read More »How to Choose PostgreSQL Indexing Strategies: B-tree vs GIN vs BRIN
Introduction: Why PostgreSQL Partitioning Strategies Matter Now PostgreSQL partitioning strategies have gone from a niche performance trick to something I now consider essential for any serious, data-heavy application. As tables grow into tens or hundreds of millions of rows, I’ve… Read More »Top 7 Best PostgreSQL Partitioning Strategies for Fast Partition Pruning
Introduction: Why Partition Choice Matters for PostgreSQL Partition Pruning When I first started using table partitioning in PostgreSQL, I assumed that just "having partitions" would automatically make queries faster. It didn't take long to learn the hard way that the… Read More »How to Choose Range vs Hash Partitioning in PostgreSQL for Better Pruning
Introduction: Why PostgreSQL Time-Series Partitioning Matters In every PostgreSQL system I’ve managed, time-series data has been the first thing to grow out of control. Logs, metrics, events, IoT readings, financial ticks – they all share the same pattern: endless inserts,… Read More »How to Build PostgreSQL Time-Series Partitioning with Automatic Retention
Introduction: Why PostgreSQL Background Workers Deserve a Playbook Once I started pushing PostgreSQL background workers beyond simple demos, I realized they behave like first-class citizens in the server, with all the same responsibilities and risks. A worker crash, a deadlock… Read More »Top 5 Best PostgreSQL Background Worker Patterns for Safe Shared Memory Use
Introduction: When PostgreSQL Statistics Quietly Break Your Performance Some of the slowest PostgreSQL databases I’ve tuned didn’t suffer from bad hardware or terrible SQL; they were held back by quietly broken PostgreSQL statistics. The planner was making perfectly logical decisions… Read More »Top 7 Ways PostgreSQL Statistics Go Bad and Make Queries Slow
Introduction: Why PostgreSQL Auditing Needs More Than Simple Triggers When I first started adding audit trails to PostgreSQL, I did what most people do: I created a few AFTER INSERT/UPDATE/DELETE row triggers and wrote changes into an audit table. It… Read More »Top 7 Strategies for PostgreSQL Auditing with Logical Decoding and Event Triggers
Introduction: Why PostgreSQL Deadlock Debugging Matters When a production PostgreSQL database freezes under load, the root cause is often hidden behind locks: long waits, blocked transactions, and sometimes hard deadlocks. In my experience, teams usually notice this only after users… Read More »PostgreSQL Deadlock Debugging: A Practical Guide with pg_locks
Introduction: Why PostgreSQL Autovacuum Monitoring Tools Matter PostgreSQL’s autovacuum is one of those features that quietly keeps a database alive, yet in my experience it’s also one of the most misunderstood. When it’s working well, you barely notice it. When… Read More »Top 5 PostgreSQL Autovacuum Monitoring Tools to Beat Bloat and Wraparound
Introduction to PostgreSQL Change Data Capture and Auditing When I first started adding auditing to PostgreSQL applications, I did what most developers do: I threw together a few AFTER triggers and a generic audit_log table. It worked for a while,… Read More »PostgreSQL Change Data Capture with Logical Decoding and Event Triggers
Introduction: Why PostgreSQL COPY Bulk Loads So Often Go Wrong When I help teams migrate large datasets into PostgreSQL, the same pattern appears over and over: they discover COPY, flip it on for a big backfill, and then wonder why… Read More »Top 7 PostgreSQL COPY Bulk Load Mistakes That Kill Throughput