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PostgreSQL Logical Replicas and Snapshots: Proceed Carefully

Posted by Jeremy ⋅ July 26, 2021

Update 2024-Jan-24: this post has been linked from a few places after I wrote it in 2021. Just wanted to mention that there’s been ongoing discussion about logical replication and PostgreSQL. Instacart also has a newer blog post out about zero-downtime cutovers and it sounds like they’ve built some cool tooling. I think that two … Continue reading →

Paranoid SQL Execution on Postgres

Posted by Jeremy ⋅ July 6, 2021 ⋅ 1 Comment

Suppose that you want to be completely over-the-top paranoid about making sure that when you execute some particular SQL statement on your Postgres database, you’re doing it in the safest and least risky way? For example, suppose it’s the production database behind your successful startup’s main commercial website. If anything even causes queries to block/pause … Continue reading →