Back in Nov 2021, I wrote about calling Stored procedure from Java and demonstrated how we can call a simple stored procedure from Java or a one that contains a IN parameter. I have done some more playing around with calling Stored procedure from Java so this blog is about calling a stored procedure with…
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There are many advantages to using bind variables in SQL statements, especially in conditional statements. Using bind variables can save the trouble to parse and optimize the query in every execution. There are also disadvantages such as bind variable will make optimizer lost its prediction accuracy and cause performance decrease. In PostgreSQL are represented by…
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A hierarchical query is built upon parent-child relationship, the relationship exist in the same table or view. The relationship dictates that each child can have one parent while a parent can have many children. Hierarchical query is a SQL query that handles data of hierarchical model i.e. an organisation structure where every employee has one…
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A key aspect of maintaining a high performance database is continuous monitoring of system resources, as any issues anywhere on the system can potentially lead to downtime. There are options aplenty for monitoring, so reinventing the wheel doesn’t make much sense. For that purpose, I’ve selected a couple of options that are simple to deploy,…
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1. Overview PostgreSQL supports many System Information Functions, such as Session Information Functions, Access Privilege Inquiry Functions, Schema Visibility Inquiry Functions, System Catalog Information Functions, Transaction ID and Snapshot Information Functions, etc. However, you may want build some special functions and integrate them into the PostgreSQL. This blog is going to walk through the steps…
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PostgreSQL is one of the most advanced open source databases globally with a lot of great features. One of them is Streaming Replication which was introduced in PostgreSQL 9.0—known as Physical Replication. It works by sending the WAL segments generated by the primary PostgreSQL to another standby server also running PostgreSQL. However, if we only…
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I have spent sometime exploring all the SQL command changes in PostgreSQL 14, this blog will provide a brief summary about the SQL changes along with some examples. There are exciting new features that in progress for PG-14, this blog will only focus on the SQL changes that are committed and will be released with…
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1. Overview PostgreSQL supports different type of replications, i.e. logical and physical, and there are many tutorials discussed about the replications. This blog is a simply walk-through of the WAL Streaming replication using the latest Postgresql-13 on Ubuntu 18.04. 2. Install Postgresql-13 from source code In this blog, we will install Postgresql from the source…
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A table in PostgreSQL has a relfilenode value, which specifies the file name of the table on disk (except foreign table and partition table). In general, this value can be found in the relfilenode field of the pg_class table, but there are some specific tables whose query result in the relfilenode field is 0. This…
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PostgreSQL database writes all changes happening in the database to a log file before it writes them to the actual data files. These log files are called WAL (Write-Ahead Log). Until these changes are flushed to the disk, they are kept in memory and is returned from the memory when it’s asked for. Writing to…
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1. Overview PostgreSQL is a great open source database developed and maintained by many great software engineers around the world. In each release, there are many features added to this open source database. For example, one feature is very helpful for developer is backtrace_functions introduced in PostgreSQL 13 , which allows a developer to dump…
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