PostgreSQL

Commercial PostgreSQL distributions with TDE (1) Fujitsu Enterprise Postgres (1) Setup

While TDE (Transparent Data Encryption) is considered a checklist feature in some parts of the PostgreSQL community this topic comes up all over again. The same is true with our customers, it doesn’t matter at all if it technically(…)

PostgreSQL: Transaction IDs and Virtual Transaction IDs

In the last post we’ve looked at the basics when it comes to row locking in PostgreSQL and how that looks like in pg_locks. In this post we’ll look at transaction IDs and virtual transaction(…)

PostgreSQL: An introduction to row locking

Sometimes it is necessary to troubleshoot locks in PostgreSQL to figure out what is going on in the system. While locks are important and necessary in a database system, too many locks can also be an issue, performance wise(…)

PostgreSQL 19: Logical replication of sequences

Logical replication in PostgreSQL got a lot of features and performance improvements over the last releases. It was introduced in PostgreSQL 10 back in 2017, and PostgreSQL 9.6 (in 2016) introduced logical decoding which is the basis for logical(…)

PostgreSQL 19: The “WAIT FOR” command

When you go for replication and you don’t use synchronous replication there is always a window when data written on the primary is not yet available in the replica. This is known as “replication lag” and can be monitored(…)

RAG Series – Agentic RAG

Introduction In earlier parts, we moved from Naive RAG (vector search) to Hybrid RAG (dense + sparse) to Adaptive RAG (query classification and dynamic weighting). Each step improved what we retrieve. Agentic RAG goes further: the LLM decides if(…)

pgconf.eu 2025 – RECAP

I was fortunate to be able to attend at the pgconf.eu 2025. This year event was happening in RIGA and joined together once again key members of the community, contributors, committers, sponsors and users from across the world.

RAG Series – Adaptive RAG, understanding Confidence, Precision & nDCG

Introduction In this RAG series we tried so far to introduce new concepts of the RAG workflow each time. This new article is going to introduce also new key concepts at the heart of Retrieval. Adaptive RAG will allow(…)

From Oracle’s PL/SQL to PostgreSQL’s PL/pgSQL – 2 – Records, outputs and constraints

In the last post we’ve learned the basics for migrating a sample procedure from PL/SQL to PL/pgSQL. In this post we’ll actually start with migrating the code. The first step in the original procedure was(…)

From Oracle’s PL/SQL to PostgreSQL’s PL/pgSQL – 1 – Basics

Migrating from one database system to another is not an easy task. It might be easy if you only need to migrate the data, but as soon as you have business logic in the database this can become a(…)