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2ndQuadrant – Not the Gartner Magic Quadrant

April 3, 2017/0 Comments/in 2ndQuadrant /by Umair Shahid

It’s still appropriate though. Because that is what we are – thought leaders in open source PostgreSQL. But that’s not what I am here to talk about. The name “2ndQuadrant” comes from “The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People” by Stephen Covey, specifically Habit 3 “Put First Things First”, p.151. It refers to the classification […]

PgDay Paris 2017

March 24, 2017/0 Comments/in 2ndQuadrant, Simon's PlanetPostgreSQL /by Simon Riggs

Great conference! Paris is a great venue for travellers across Europe and worldwide. PgDay Paris 2017 was held in English and attracted a wide audience from many other countries: UK, NL, CH, BE, US, SE – and that was just the people I spoke to. Je suis desolee ne parler ou ecrit pas en francais. […]

PGConf India 2017 – An Event to Remember

March 24, 2017/0 Comments/in 2ndQuadrant, Pavan's PlanetPostgreSQL /by Pavan Deolasee

Yet another edition of PGConf India came to conclusion in early March. You may have noticed the change from PGDay to PGConf, which signals a much larger gathering of PostgreSQL enthusiasts, now and in future. What started as a small meet-up of like minded people 4 years back, has now grown into a 2-day conference […]

Explaining CREATE INDEX CONCURRENTLY

February 2, 2017/4 Comments/in 2ndQuadrant, Pavan's PlanetPostgreSQL /by Pavan Deolasee

Dataloss at GitLab

February 1, 2017/13 Comments/in 2ndQuadrant, Simon's PlanetPostgreSQL /by Simon Riggs

GitLab, thanks for using PostgreSQL 9.6 and its replication and backup facilities. We’re sorry that you lost your database: http://about.gitlab.com/2017/02/01/gitlab-dot-com-database-incident/ Thank you for posting this publicly to allow us to comment on this for your postmortem analysis. I’m very happy that you monitor Replication Lag, that is good. Replication lag of 4GB is at times […]

What does pg_start_backup() do?

January 23, 2017/5 Comments/in 2ndQuadrant, Simon's PlanetPostgreSQL /by Simon Riggs

Reading mailing lists can damage your health, as I recently discovered on the PostgreSQL Performance list where backup was being discussed. First off, don’t read blogs for finding out critical pieces of info. Read the docs because they are accurate, fully reviewed and well maintained. I should add that I was the initial author of […]

PostgreSQL’s Popularity Goes Up Again

January 4, 2017/0 Comments/in 2ndQuadrant, Simon's PlanetPostgreSQL /by Simon Riggs

Mirror mirror on the wall, Who is the fairest Database of all? A frequently asked question, certainly. DB-Engines recently announced it’s DBMS of the Year. Maybe the cool thing is that PostgreSQL is in 3rd Place. Yee-ha, an open source project is up there! Let’s look closely about what this means. PostgreSQL.org’s agreed response was […]

PGDay.IT 2016 in Prato, Italy

December 21, 2016/0 Comments/in 2ndQuadrant, Jonathan's PlanetPostgreSQL /by Jonathan Battiato

This year, the ITPUG (Italian Postgres User Group) organized PGDay in Prato, my hometown and city where the association was born, although most of the members are from outside of the Tuscany region. It was my pleasure to contribute to the community by sharing my professional experience. I gave a talk about PostgreSQL on Network File System, […]

CHAR16 Conf Panel Video

December 14, 2016/0 Comments/in 2ndQuadrant, Simon's PlanetPostgreSQL /by Simon Riggs

CHAR(16) Conference was a live conference in NYC held on 6 Dec 2016, focusing on Scalability for Business. The Speaker Panel was recorded, so you can find out what happened here: http://youtu.be/eLjBoZr4dTc (1 hour) Eric David Benari hosted an hour long “chat show” format, featuring Mason Sharp Petr Jelinek Peter Eisentraut Simon Riggs Jonathan Katz […]

CHAR(16) Scalability for Business

December 8, 2016/0 Comments/in 2ndQuadrant, Simon's PlanetPostgreSQL /by Simon Riggs

CHAR(16) Conference (now known as 2QPGConf) on Scalability for Business went very well in the heart of New York City. Hotel Pennsylvania was a great venue; convenient for travel and a great conference venue with coffee, food and evening drinks. Jonathan Katz was great as MC for the conference, while Eric David Benari did a great job […]

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