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A Hairy PostgreSQL Incident

Posted by Jeremy ⋅ February 10, 2022 ⋅ 24 Comments

It was 5:17pm today, just as I was wrapping up work for the day, and my manager pinged me with the following chat: <manager>: Hi Jeremy – we have a <other team> ticket – escalated to <leader>, <leader>, etc. <principal> is on trying to advise as well. Are you available this evening if needed for … Continue reading →

Largest Tables Including Indexes and LOBs

Posted by Jeremy ⋅ December 4, 2013 ⋅ 3 Comments

Just a quick code snippit. I do a lot of data pumps to move schemas between different databases; for example taking a copy of a schema to an internal database to try to reproduce a problem. Some of these schemas have some very large tables. The large tables aren’t always needed to research a particular … Continue reading →