Introduction The purpose of this blog post is to introduce pg_shmemviz, a new tool to visualize PostgreSQL shared memory. It follows the same approach as pg_walviz, bringing physical layout and byte…

Introduction The purpose of this blog post is to introduce pg_walviz, a new tool to visualize PostgreSQL WAL segment files. pg_waldump is very useful to display a human-readable rendering of the WAL.…

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Introduction PostgreSQL 18 will normally (as there is always a risk of seeing something reverted until its GA release) include those commits: Add data for WAL in pg_stat_io and backend statistics:…

Introduction PostgreSQL 18 will normally (as there is always a risk of seeing something reverted until its GA release) include this commit: Add backend-level statistics to pgstats. commit…

Recently, I attended a conference talk about the vibrant ecosystem of PostgreSQL. It was a fascinating presentation, showcasing the incredi...

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