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When declarative partitioning was introduced with PostgreSQL 10 this was a big step forward. But as always with big new features some things do not work in PostgreSQL 10 which now get resolved in PostgreSQL 11. One of those are local partitioned indexes. To make it easier to understand lets start with an example in PostgreSQL 10. A very simple…
Recently I came over that commit and wondered what that is about. The answer is quite simple but I didn’t know that this issue existed. Basically it is about how progress messages are written to screen and how they are written to a file. Lets have a look. When your run pg_basebackup with progress messages and in verbose mode the…
Up to PostgreSQL 10 it was not possible to create procedures in PostgreSQL. Of course you can create functions which do not return anything but the possibility to create a procedure was not there. That will probably change in PostgreSQL 11 when nothing happens which will lead to the removal of that commit. On top of that there was another…
This article is an additional article to my precedent about “SQL Server 2017: What’s happens with an interruption during a Resumable Online Index Rebuild?” The goal is to see after I suspend the rebuild, if I can run a traditional rebuild without the option RESUME. I start an index rebuild with the option Resumable: ALTER INDEX [NCI_dbo_Transaction] ON [dbo].[Transaction]…
Last week, I presented this option in our internal event, the dbi xChange. My colleague David Barbarin asked me this question, what’s append if an interruption occurs (reboot, SQL Server service stopped,…) during a Resumable Online Index Rebuild? I was not able to answer because I forgot to do this test. The new enhancement for an index rebuild provides the…
When giving the PostgreSQL DBA Essentials workshop one of the main issues people have is how they can exit psql. Even on stackoverflow this is a popular topic. The good news for people who still don’t like to use “q” here is the commit that will add additional options to quit/exit from psql. Up to PostgreSQL 10 what you can…
By Franck Pachot . In a previous post about Result Cache, I was using ‘set autotrace on’ in my session to see when the result cache hit saves the logical reads. I got a comment, by e-mail and with full test case, mentioning that the invalidation I had when doing some DML does not occur when autotrace is set to…
By Mouhamadou Diaw With Oracle 12.2, in a Data Guard environment corrupted data blocks can be automatically replaced with uncorrupted copies of those blocks. There are just some requirements: • The physical standby database must be operating in real-time query mode, which requires an Oracle Active Data Guard license. • The physical standby database must be running real-time apply. Automatic…
I recently wrote a couple of sql-scripts which had to run on all of my customer’s DBs. The sql-scripts had to be started from a Linux-client, which does not have any Oracle client software installed. So I thought of using sqlcl (see http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/developer-tools/sqlcl/downloads/index.html), because there is no need to “install” something then. All I needed was an installed JRE on…
By Franck Pachot . In multitenant, the recovery and availability are at CDB level. But customers asked for a switchover at PDB level so Oracle has done that in 18c, based on refreshable PDBs. For this test I have two multitenant database on an Oracle Cloud service in 18c: CDB1 and CDB2. The only special thing I did was disable…
By Franck Pachot . When the documentation is not always clear, I prefer to build a test case to be sure about the behavior in different context and different versions. Here is a test on SQL Plan Management to show which plan is chosen among the different states of SQL Plan Baselines: Enabled, Accepted, Fixed. Thanks to Oracle ACE program,…
Short answer: Yes, it is. Being at a customer the last days we wanted to parallel pg_dump a 2TB database. We were quite surprised that it was quite slow and it was not immediately clear why it was. Well, the answer is in the documentation: When you go for parallel dumps you need to use the directory format and this…
