/PostgreSQL

PostgreSQL 13 Released!

tl;dr: "Includes significant improvements to its indexing and lookup system that benefit large databases, including space savings and performance gains for indexes, faster response times for queries that use aggregates or partitions, better query planning when using enhanced statistics, and more."

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Building A Recommendation Engine Inside Postgres With Python And Pandas

- Craig Kerstiens tl;dr: Craig guides us through his experimental recommendation engine - with "SciPy, NumPy and Pandas there is a lot of interesting potential here."

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How To Implement Search By Color When All You Have Is A Good Coffee

- Mike Alche tl;dr: How search was implemented on a Next.JS app using PostgreSQL and third party library called "color thief."

featured in #188


10 Things I Hate About PostgreSQL

- Rick Branson tl;dr: A dive into PostgreSQL’s imperfections (1) Disastrous XID wraparound (2) Failover will probably lose data (3) Inefficient replication that spreads corruption. 

featured in #180


Simplify: Move Code Into Database Functions

- Derek Sivers tl;dr: "If you are a web or API developer, programming code that uses an SQL database, this is for you. I’ve found a very different and useful way to structure code."

featured in #178


Postgres.ai

tl;dr: "Eliminate database-related roadblocks on the way of developers, DBAs and QA engineers"

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Thinking Psycopg3

- Daniele Varrazzo tl;dr: Daniele, a maintainer of Pscyopg2, is planning for the next version. 

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Advanced Scheduling For PostgreSQL

- Pavlo Golub tl;dr: "pg\_timetable is an advanced job scheduler for PostgreSQL, offering many advantages over traditional schedulers such as cron and others. It is completely database driven and provides a couple of advanced concepts."

featured in #172


PostgreSQL At Low Level: Stay Curious!

- Dimitry Dolgov tl;dr: Deep dive into the inner workings of a Postgres DB. Dimitry uses a few examples of situations he finds interesting or useful, where outside tools help illustrate what's going on under the hood. 

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PostgreSQL 12 Released!

tl;dr: "PostgreSQL 12 enhancements include notable improvements to query performance, particularly over larger data sets, and overall space utilization."

featured in #156