Testing a database performance is a must in every company. Despite everyone’s needs beings slightly different, a good starting point for PostgreSQL® database is using pgbench: a tool shipped with the PostgreSQL installation that allows you to stress test a local or remote database. This blog post showcases how to install (on a Mac) and use pgbench to create load on a remote PostgreSQL database on Aiven.

Some time ago I found an interesting database file suffix I never faced before: the .dbf and saw around that it was first introduced in 1983 with dBASE II. This article showcases how we can automatically generate the PostgreSQL table and fill it with data using Python and dbfread.

Everyone is now talking about AI, and modern databases like PostgreSQL® are increasingly being adopted in companies’ AI journey as sources of data or key pieces of the AI infrastructure. Moreover there’s a new set projects that are solving PostgreSQL problems with AI.