Articles by Shiv Iyer

About Shiv Iyer
Open Source Database Systems Engineer with a deep understanding of Optimizer Internals, Performance Engineering, Scalability and Data SRE. Shiv currently is the Founder, Investor, Board Member and CEO of multiple Database Systems Infrastructure Operations companies in the Transaction Processing Computing and ColumnStores ecosystem. He is also a frequent speaker in open source software conferences globally.
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PostgreSQL Performance

How is the transaction model implemented in PostgreSQL?

How is the transaction model implemented in PostgreSQL? In PostgreSQL, transactions are implemented using the Multi-Version Concurrency Control (MVCC) model. This means that each transaction is given a snapshot of the database at the start […]
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MinervaDB

How to handle NULL values in PostgreSQL

How to handle NULL values in PostgreSQL IS NULL: This operator is used to check if a column or expression is NULL. Example: SELECT * FROM table WHERE column_name IS NULL; IS NOT NULL: This […]
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PostgreSQL Performance

Understanding locks and deadlocks in PostgreSQL

Understanding locks and deadlocks in PostgreSQL Locks in PostgreSQL are used to ensure that concurrent transactions do not interfere with each other. When a transaction modifies a piece of data, it will take out an [...]
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PostgreSQL Performance

How to use Sparse Index in PostgreSQL 15?

How to use Sparse Index in PostgreSQL 15? Sparse indexes are used in PostgreSQL when the table contains many null or empty values in the indexed column. These indexes can greatly reduce the size of [...]
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PostgreSQL Performance

How I/O cache influence PostgreSQL performance?

How I/O cache influence PostgreSQL performance? I/O cache plays an important role in PostgreSQL performance as it can greatly reduce the number of disk I/O operations that need to be performed. The PostgreSQL server uses [...]
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PostgreSQL Performance

Inspecting PostgreSQL Locks

Inspecting PostgreSQL Locks Inspecting PostgreSQL locks can be done using the pg_locks view in the system catalog. This view displays information about all currently held and awaited locks. The columns in this view include the [...]