
David Rowley
@davidrowley_pg
PostgreSQL hacker working for Microsoft. Likes to make PostgreSQL go faster. When not working, you might find him in the mountains somewhere in New Zealand
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29-03-2021 02:31:24
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David Rowley (Citus Data): What’s new in the Postgres 16 query planner / optimizer postgr.es/p/6lO

New post from David Rowley from the #PostgreSQL team at Microsoft, about what's new in the Postgres 16 query planner (aka optimizer) tl;dr ✅ PG16 has quite a few performance improvements to the query planner, this post walks through 10 of them techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/azure-datab…

In David Rowley’s new blog post about planner improvements in #postgres 16, he provides example queries and plans for every optimization mentioned. It’s a great way to learn about planner if you’re new or to brush up on minimal repros if you’re seasoned


This deep dive by David Rowley on PG16 improvements is great! citusdata.com/blog/2024/02/0… What I love just as much as him showing up in HN comments, not defending or deflecting just being there and taking input but also educating news.ycombinator.com/item?id=393108…

This is one of these very few articles: short, relevant, clear. A MUST read for everybody—whether using PostgreSQL or not. It is generally good to see how these things work. Thank you David Rowley — for the patches too, of course! citusdata.com/blog/2024/02/0…


Recent blog post from David Rowley from the Postgres team at Microsoft, which developers & users loved 💟 All about what's new 🤯 in the #PostgreSQL 16 query planner As SQL Performance Tips says, it's "short, relevant, clear. A MUST read for everybody" techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/azure-datab…

In just over a week, I'm getting a rare opportunity to tell my story about how I ended up working full-time on PostgreSQL. Many thanks to Claire Giordano ✨ and all the Talking Postgres team for making this happen. I'm looking forward to it.

Thanks to Claire Giordano ✨ and the Talking Postgres team for giving me a chance to tell my story about how I ended up working full-time on PostgreSQL. There certainly wasn't a single defining moment, but likely a few key things that took me in that direction.

One of the things I'm working on for PostgreSQL 18 is executor performance. Today I pushed a patch to add JIT support to increase the performance of generating hash values for Hash Join. Thanks to Andres Freund (Tech) for letting me know this needed attention. git.postgresql.org/gitweb/?p=post…





🐘 🤔 If you're interested in the #Postgres Query Planner, you'll love David Rowley's (David Rowley) #PosetteConf talk. Discover why David chose to talk about the Query Planner and more at: posetteconf.com/speakers/david… #postgresql #databases #OpenSource

It was a pleasure to give a talk last week at POSETTE: An Event for Postgres 🌟 🎥 #PosetteConf about what's new in the PostgreSQL 18 query planner. There are some great new features in this release. youtube.com/watch?v=KoT253…