Stored Procedure OUT Parameters in PostgreSQL 14
PostgreSQL global development group generally announces a new release every year, with several new features. With an increase in the number of contributions and contributors, the new version PostgreSQL 14 released on September 30th, 2021, with several important features. As a developer and a database migration expert, I am happy to say that there are several developer friendly
SELECT FOR UPDATE and its behavior with foreign keys in PostgreSQL
The general approach followed by developers is to pre-acquire the lock(FOR UPDATE)on the data sets that are being updated/deleted concurrently. This approach may be considered to solve the dead lock problem or to control the concurrent access to one or more rows, but could sometimes lead to an unnecessary locking behavior. In this article we shall discuss about
Upgrading PostgreSQL 9.6 to PostgreSQL 13
It the the time for everybody using PostgreSQL 9.6 to start planning an upgrade to the latest supported PostgreSQL version. PostgreSQL Global Development Group (PGDG) supports any major version for 5 years after its initial release. PostgreSQL 9.6 with its initial release on September 29, 2016 is about to become an unsupported version. Its final minor version will
Announcing PG_DBMS_JOB in PostgreSQL for Oracle DBMS_JOB compatibility
When you are working on Oracle to PostgreSQL migrations, one of the Oracle packages that cause conversion issues is DBMS_JOB. Traditionally, we used extensions like : pg_agent, pg_cron or more recently pg_timetable for scheduling jobs. All of these tools or extensions use a cronjob like scheduling method which does not give a full compatibility of the features provided
Validate PostgreSQL extension upgrade scripts using pg_validate_extupgrade
A few days ago, I decided to try this new extension called pg_validate_extupgrade written by Julien Rouhaud. This extension looks very interesting for those who are developing PostgreSQL extensions. The point is that when upgrading the extensions that you develop, you have to create upgrade files and, if necessary, downgrade files to go from one installed version to
CentOS vs Rocky Linux Benchmark with PostgreSQL
In December 2020, you might have seen an article from CentOS about shifting their focus towards CentOS stream, which is the upstream version of the RHEL. CentOS also mentioned that the version 8 would be EOL (end of life) by the end of the 2021. This means that it will no longer receive any updated fixes from it’s