While there are some docs on it, I decided to write about it, in perhaps more accessible language - not as a developer, but as PostgreSQL user. Some parts (quite large parts) were described in one of my earlier posts, but ...

For todays post in Understanding postgresql.conf series, I chose work_mem parameter.

Starting new blog series - explanation of various configuration parameters. I will of course follow no schedule or order - if I'd had to - it would be my job, and in this way - it's fun. First configuration parameter to write ...

On 7th of October Alvaro Herrera committed his own patch, which adds quite interesting possibilty: Log Message: ----------- Make it possibly to specify GUC params per user and per database.   Create a new catalog pg_db_role_setting where they are now stored, and better encapsulate the code ...

This post has been updated with new code that uses temporary table - the code is at the end of post! There was this question on Stack Overflow. For future reference: guy asked how to do session variables - i.e. something he ...

Also yesterday, and also Peter Eisentraut, committed patch by Guillaume Smet, which: Add log_line_prefix placeholder %e to contain the current SQL state   Author: Guillaume Smet