On 7th of April 2018, Alvaro Herrera committed patch: Support partition pruning at execution time Existing partition pruning is only able to work at plan time, for query quals that appear in the parsed query. This is good but limiting, as there can ...

On 7th of April 2018, Teodor Sigaev committed patch: Indexes with INCLUDE columns and their support in B-tree This patch introduces INCLUDE clause to index definition. This clause specifies a list of columns which will be included as a non-key part in the ...

On 7th of April 2018, Teodor Sigaev committed patch: Add json(b)_to_tsvector function Jsonb has a complex nature so there isn't best-for-everything way to convert it to tsvector for full text search. Current to_tsvector(json(b)) suggests to convert only string values, but it's possible to index ...

On 28th of March 2018, Peter Eisentraut committed patch: Transforms for jsonb to PL/Python Add a new contrib module jsonb_plpython that provide a transform between jsonb and PL/Python. jsonb values are converted to appropriate Python types such as dicts and lists, and vice ...

Some time ago I removed paste.depesz.com because of some problems with underlying formatting library. Now, it's back. New code, new approach, hopefully usable site.

update! It looks that this has been reverted On 2nd of April 2018, Simon Riggs committed patch: MERGE SQL Command following SQL:2016 MERGE performs actions that modify rows in the target table using a source table or query. MERGE provides a single SQL statement that can ...

On 28th of March 2018, Andrew Dunstan committed patch: Fast ALTER TABLE ADD COLUMN with a non-NULL default Currently adding a column to a table with a non-NULL default results in a rewrite of the table. For large tables this can be both ...

Some time ago I wrote a site to paste SQL queries with reformatting/pretty-printing using pgFormatter library. Today, I figured out that I should update the library since it has quite some changes recently, so it would be good to incorporate its ...

Couple of times, in various places, I was asked: what is the benefit from upgrading to some_version. So far, I just read release docs, and compiled list of what has changed. But this is not necessarily simple - consider upgrade from 9.3.2 ...

I was faced with interesting problem. Which schema, in my DB, uses the most disk space? Theoretically it's trivial, we have set of helpful functions: pg_column_size pg_database_size pg_indexes_size ...