~postgresweekly | Issue 578 - Adding an SQLite column type to Postgres (10)

Postgres 17.1, 16.5, 15.9, 14.14, 13.17, and 12.21 Released — A roundup of releases for every maintained line of Postgres including bug fixes and fixes for four security issues. 12.21 also marks the final release of Postgres 12. Be careful with upgrading to Postgres 17.1, though, as there are some potential compatibility issues.. see the next item!

A Change to ResultRelInfo: A Near Miss with Postgres 17.1 — A seemingly minor change in the Postgres 17.1 release led to compatibility issues with some extensions (such as TimescaleDB and Apache AGE – see what TimeScale’s CTO had to say here). Craig explains what the issue is and why it arose here, reminding us that developing extensions robust to such changes is a...

Postgres Reimagined for Data Warehousing — Crunchy Data Warehouse combines managed storage, a powerful analytics engine, and unified data pipeline. Seamlessly query data using familiar Postgres tools with the added benefit of columnar storage and performance.

Boosting INSERT Performance by 50% with UNNEST — You probably know that using COPY is usually the fastest way to ingest data into Postgres at scale, but INSERT retains some advantages due to its extra features. Can INSERT be sped up? UNNEST arrives to shake things up..

Easy Totals and Subtotals in Postgres with Rollup and Cube — Handy additions for performing more analytical queries. ROLLUP can create hierarchical subtotals along with a grand total, while CUBE generates subtotals for every possible combination of grouping columns.

Loading the World: An OpenStreetMap Import in Under 4 Hours — Did you know that OpenStreetMap’s database is a whopping 750GB in size, and you can grab it and set it up for yourself as a way to stress-test Postgres? Greg looks at how long it takes to ingest, how to make it faster, and performance improvements over the years. (Minor spoiler: Postgres 17...

Running Postgres on Spot VMs? 🤯 — Building on a talk from PGConf Europe, Kaarel looks at how viable it is to run Postgres on instances that could, well, disappear at almost any time. pg-spot-operator is a utility he’s built to make it work.

The Doom That Came To Postgres: When Collations Change — What can happen when the library that provides locales changes out from under an existing Postgres database? It’s not pretty..

pglite-fusion: Embed SQLite Databases in Postgres Tables — An extension that gives you the ability to embed SQLite databases into Postgres tables by way of a special new SQLITE column type (so, yes, every row in a table could itself have an embedded SQLite database..)

DBngin: Simple Postgres, MySQL and Redis on Mac and Windows — You could use Docker, you could use Postgres.app.. but if you’d like to spin up different versions of several common databases using a simple UI, this could fit the bill.