At my recent job, I was asked to create a backup procedure, which would dump a PostgreSQL schema to a compressed file and which was able to create weekly and daily backups. The backups had to be full backups each … Continue reading
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Not using indexes or huge tables without indexes, can have a very negative impact on the duration of a SQL query. The query planner will decide to make a sequence scan, which means that the query will go through the … Continue reading
Working on large database systems, with many tables and many indexes, it is easy to loose the overview on what is actually being used and what is just consuming unwanted disk space. If indexes are not closely monitored, they could … Continue reading