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The Day I Discovered My TimescaleDB Was Just PostgreSQL in Disguise

For years I thought my Zabbix was using TimescaleDB. A failed upgrade revealed the truth: 391 million records in plain PostgreSQL with no optimization. My queries were 7,500x slower than they should have been. Sometimes the best discoveries come from fixing what's broken.

> Bartosz Maciejewski @ 18 Jun 2025 ~ 6 min read

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Upgrade TimescaleDB extension

TimescaleDB is extension for PostgreSQL database that greatly improve performance of database by automatically partitioning data into time-based chunks to

> Bartosz Maciejewski @ 01 Nov 2022 ~ 5 min read

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Zabbix on NetBSD with IPMI (+ some info of recent changes in pkgsrc)

Finally on -CURRENT branch, and probably carried on to pkgsrc-2020Q4 there is new Zabbix port with version 5.0.6,

> Bartosz Maciejewski @ 29 Dec 2020 ~ 1 min read

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The Day I Discovered My TimescaleDB Was Just PostgreSQL in Disguise

Upgrade TimescaleDB extension

Zabbix on NetBSD with IPMI (+ some info of recent changes in pkgsrc)