Thanks to the new utilities barman-cloud-restore and barman-cloud-wal-restore introduced in Barman 2.11, it is now possible to execute the recovery of a PostgreSQL instance using a full backup previously executed using barman-cloud-wal-archive and barman-cloud-backup commands. Let’s discover together how to implement this in the following article.
In the first part of this blog, Jonathan explained how the barman-wal-archive command works. Now, assuming you followed those instructions, you have a properly configured PostgreSQL instance up and running. In this second part, I will show you how the barman-cloud-backup command works.
OmniDB is an open-source, graphical database management tool developed by 2ndQuadrant, a world-leader in PostgreSQL technologies and services. OmniDB is a browser-based, universal client tool that can manage major database engines like PostgreSQL, MariaDB, MySQL, and Oracle. Other soon-to-be-supported engines include SQLite, Firebird, MS SQL Server, and IBM DB2. Like any excellent database client software, OmniDB […]
PostgreSQL has quite a few compelling advantages, some of which are not found in any other database management system. This article will outline the ones that are most interesting to the Oracle developer seeking to do a migration or investigate alternatives for new development. To prevent this article from becoming another list of PostgreSQL features, it […]
This article provides the Oracle database administrator with equivalent PostgreSQL architecture knowledge. The process is a bit loose, but it is sufficient to bootstrap the concepts that are transferable and identify the ones that are not.
And now we arrive at the second article in our migration from Oracle to PostgreSQL series. This time we’ll be taking a look at the START WITH/CONNECT BY construct. In Oracle, START WITH/CONNECT BY is used to create a singly linked list structure starting at a given sentinel row. The linked list may take the form of a tree, and has no balancing […]
We find ourselves at the third article in the Oracle migration series. This time, we look at those strange operators that modify the WHERE clause criteria in Oracle (+). Like everything else, PostgreSQL has a solution for that.
Let’s say you want to implement a password authentication method in a client/server protocol. How would you do that and what would be the possible problems? The following is the story of how this was done in PostgreSQL. password In the beginning, PostgreSQL only had the method that is now known as "password" in pg_hba.conf. […]
Let’s wrap this up. In part 1 of this blog series, I explained the different Windows build targets supported by PostgreSQL. In part 2, I showed how to test patches for Windows compatibility and how to easily spin up a Windows environment for testing and simple development. Now, in this third and final part, we’ll […]
The title is not clickbait or hyperbole. I intend to prove that by virtue of both design and implementation that PostgreSQL is objectively and measurably a better database than anything currently available, with or without money considerations. How in the world can I claim and justify such a lofty statement? Read on, gentle nerd. I […]
