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AVOID “OR” FOR BETTER QUERY PERFORMANCE. 

Of course, there is a need for the OR operator in SQL, so if you can’t avoid it, use it. But you should be mindful of the effects on performance.

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Postgresql’s Update and AutoVac: A Beginner’s Guide

It’s surprising how many of the recent PostgreSQL support requests we’ve gotten are about autovacuum and UPDATE in particular. PostgreSQL handles upda…

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Post-process trigger performance information

We came to the conclusion that we shouldn’t worry about it too much and should just make those triggers for the most common “audit fields” type of use…

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CGROUPS OF POSTGRESQL LINUX 

cgroups manual page, quote:

> Control groups, usually referred to as cgroups, are a Linux kernel feature which allow processes to be organized into h…

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Improving sort performance in PostgreSQL

A key component of PostgreSQL performance tuning is sorting. But many people frequently misunderstand or simply ignore tuning sorts. I made the decisi…

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