Andrew Atkinson

On August 8, 2023 I had the chance to present to the San Francisco Bay Area PostgreSQL User Group (SFPUG) on our case study for a recent online table partitioning migration. The main tools we used were PostgreSQL 13 and...

PostgreSQL Rails Open Source Books

This month’s PGSQL Phriday #011 prompts bloggers to write about Sharding and Partitioning in PostgreSQL.

PostgreSQL Rails Open Source

Benedikt Deicke (co-founder of UserList) recently hosted me on the Slow & Steady podcast (co-hosted by Benedicte Raae). Our main topic was Database Constraints, why they’re useful and how to use them.

PostgreSQL Rails Ruby Podcasts

In Part 2 of this 2 part PostgreSQL 🐘 Table Partitioning series, we’ll focus on how we modified the Primary Key online for a large partitioned table. This is a disruptive operation so we had to use some tricks to...

PostgreSQL Open Source

I joined Jason Swett recently on his podcast and had a great time. The podcast topic was PostgreSQL Table Partitioning and how developers can use it. We also discussed the 2024 edition of Sin City Ruby, a conference Jason organizes...

PostgreSQL Rails Podcasts

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

PostgreSQL Open Source

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

PostgreSQL Rails Open Source

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

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

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