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24 items on 17 Aug 2026

Create Oracle Wallet for AWS DMS SSL connections using SQLcl

Learn how to use Oracle SQLcl, a lightweight alternative to the full Oracle Client, to create and manage an Oracle Wallet for SSL connections between AWS DMS and Amazon RDS for Oracle. This post walks through installing…

Source: AWS Database Blog Vamshi Krishna Panganam
PostgreSQL GitHub

pgbackrest/pgbackrest: v2.59.1: PostgreSQL 19beta3 Support

Bug Fixes: Fix hang when the chunk buffer is smaller than the input buffer. (Reviewed by Andrew Pogrebnoi, Douglas J Hunley. Reported by crajac66.) Compare a new backup label only against its own full backup set.…

Source: pgBackRest Releases dwsteele
PostgreSQL

powa-archivist 5.3.0 is out!

Tainan, Taiwan - Sun 16 Aug 2026 powa-archivist 5.3.0 The PoWA team is pleased to announce the release of the version 5.3.0 of powa-archivist, the core extension of the PoWA project. PoWA (PostgreSQL Workload Analyzer)…

Source: PostgreSQL News
PostgreSQL

Alexander Ioffe: What Does a Covering Index Cost You?

'Covering indexes hurt your writes' is an architectural maxim with no number attached. Here is the number: +28% on INSERTs, +25% on UPDATEs, 1.26x faster reads, and covering wins below ~4,300 writes per analytical read.…

Source: Planet PostgreSQL
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Maki Majima: What Flyway validate actually checks

Tool capabilities and edition boundaries described here are accurate as of publication. Both vendors move these lines; check current documentation before making decisions based on this post. There’s a specific moment…

Source: Planet PostgreSQL
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Alexander Ioffe: Why Does PostgreSQL Skip My Index?

...because your vendor's Cost Model Is from 2002. Since random_page_cost = 4.0 is for spinning disks and hasn't changed in 25 years, setting it to 1.1 cuts this query from 125.98ms to 68.69ms.

Source: Planet PostgreSQL