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Andrew Atkinson

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July 27, 2023

PostgreSQL Table Partitioning — Growing the Practice — Part 1 of 2

Hello! We recently faced challenges in working with a large table, performing operations, and query performance had worsened a lot.

PostgreSQL Open Source

June 2, 2023

PGSQL Phriday #009 — Database Change Management

This month’s PGSQL Phriday topic prompts writers to discuss how their team manages PostgreSQL database schema changes.

PostgreSQL Rails Open Source

May 26, 2023

Better Markdown Writing With Vale

Vale is a command-line writing assistant I’ve been using to improve my writing quality. Vale runs as a command line program and accepts a path to a text file. I use it with Markdown formatted text files to check for...

Productivity Tips Open Source

May 24, 2023

PGDay Chicago 2023 Conference

I had the chance to present on Table Partitioning this year at PGDay Chicago 2023, and had a great time. I wanted to recap my experience.

PostgreSQL Open Source Conferences Events

May 17, 2023

PGSQL Phriday #008 — pg_stat_statements, PgHero, Query ID

I’m late to the party, but wanted to sneak in a PGSQL Phriday entry for this community blog post series.

PostgreSQL Rails Open Source

January 19, 2023

Ruby For All Podcast: My Guest Experience 🎙️

I joined Julie and Andrew as a guest on the Ruby For All Podcast!💎

PostgreSQL Rails Podcasts

December 12, 2022

Upgrading to PostgreSQL 15 on Mac OS

PostgreSQL 15 shipped in late 2022 (See PostgreSQL 15 Release Notes), including interesting new features like SQL MERGE. I wanted to give them a try.

PostgreSQL DevOps

December 12, 2022

PostgreSQL, Ruby on Rails, Rails Guides

Hello. I recently tweeted asking the following question.

PostgreSQL Rails

November 28, 2022

AWS re:Invent Day 1

Conferences PostgreSQL DevOps

October 7, 2022

PGSQL Phriday #001 — Query Stats, Log Tags, and N+1s

In this post you will be presented with 2 truths and a lie related to PostgreSQL and Ruby on Rails.

Ruby on Rails PostgreSQL Open Source

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