In today’s world, organizations increasingly face an unprecedented level of threat of cyberattacks against their information assets. Cyberattacks can come in many forms. One such attack is called SQL injection. With SQL injection, rogue players target the backend database of any system. Usually, these systems are public-facing. Hackers try to send seemingly innocuous and regular […]
In the previous blog post, we discussed the different Windows build variants that PostgreSQL supports. In this post, we’ll discuss how, as a Unix-based developer, you can check whether your patch might work on Windows. (For simplicity, I’ll say “Unix” to mean Linux, BSD, macOS, and similar.) First, there are a few ways to check […]
Just as last year was ending, one of our long-time customers came to us because one of their long-existing PostgreSQL queries involving PostGIS geometry calculations was much slower for specific values. We researched the problem and found out how to solve it; read on! What we found as the cause of the problem will surprise […]
This is the second installment of a two-part series on 2ndQuadrant’s repmgr, an open-source high-availability tool for PostgreSQL. In the first part, we set up a three-node PostgreSQL 12 cluster along with a “witness” node. The cluster consisted of a primary node and two standby nodes. The cluster and the witness node were hosted in […]
This article gives a step by step guide to utilizing Machine Learning capabilities with 2UDA. In the article, we’ll use an example of Animals to predict whether they are mammals, Birds, Fish or Insects. Software versions We’re going to use 2UDA version 11.6-1 to implement the Machine Learning model. 2UDA version 11.6-1 combines: PostgreSQL 11.6 […]
As a PostgreSQL developer, I occasionally need to make my code work on Windows. As I don’t normally use Windows and don’t have a permanent Windows installation around, this has always been a bit cumbersome. I have developed a few techniques to make this easier, and I figure they are worth sharing. And actually this […]
Preamble How many current Barman users have thought about saving backups in a remote destination in the cloud? How many have thought about taking that backup directly from the PostgreSQL server itself? Well, since Barman 2.10 this is now possible! How? Let’s discover that together in the following articles.
repmgr is an open-source toolset from 2ndQuadrant, a leading specialist in PostgreSQL-related technologies and services. The product is used to automate, enhance, and manage PostgreSQL streaming replication. Streaming replication in PostgreSQL has been around since version 9.0. Natively setting up and managing streaming replication involves a number of manual steps which includes: Configuring replication parameters […]
K-nearest neighbor answers the question of “What is the closest match?”. PostgreSQL 12 can answer this question, and use indexes while doing it.
With the recent release of PostgreSQL 12, there’s been a lot of interest in the latest version and by popular demand, the team at 2ndQuadrant organized a live webinar on “PostgreSQL Partitioning”. The webinar was hosted by Simon Riggs, CTO 2ndQuadrant, who gave an overview of PostgreSQL partitioning features and how they play a key […]
