Since the release of v3, Postgres-BDR has evolved into the go-to clustering technology built specially for businesses that require geographically distributed databases with multiple masters. To get an update on Postgres-BDR’s development, new features, and future roadmap, 2ndQuadrant held the pglogical and Postgres-BDR Update webinar as part of its PostgreSQL webinar series. The webinar was […]
Geo-redundancy of PostgreSQL database backups with Barman
/2 Comments/in Gabriele's PlanetPostgreSQL /by Gabriele BartoliniBarman 2.6 introduces support for geo-redundancy, meaning that Barman can now copy from another Barman instance, not just a PostgreSQL database.
Webinar: Banking on Postgres – Financial Application Considerations [Follow up]
/0 Comments/in Liaqat's PlanetPostgreSQL, PostgreSQL, Webinars /by Liaqat AndrabiThe demand for PostgreSQL within the financial industry has been rapidly increasing in the recent years; mainly due to reduction in licensing costs, better choice of open source tools, and the robust enterprise features that PostgreSQL provides. 2ndQuadrant hosted the “Banking on Postgres” webinar to discuss attributes of financial databases based on Postgres, configuration processes, […]
PG Phriday: Terrific Throughput Tracking
/0 Comments/in Shaun's PlanetPostgreSQL /by Shaun ThomasPostgres has a lot of built-in information functions that most people don’t know about. Some of these are critical components to identifying replication lag, but what if we could use them for something else, like throughput? This man’s one simple trick can track actual database throughput; DBAs hate him! Everybody Knows Let’s take a look […]
Maintaining feature branches and submitting patches with Git
/0 Comments/in Eisentraut's PlanetPostgreSQL /by Peter EisentrautI have developed a particular Git workflow for maintaining PostgreSQL feature branches and submitting patches to the pgsql-hackers mailing list and commit fests. Perhaps it’s also useful to others. This workflow is useful for features that take a long time to develop, will be submitted for review several times, and will require a significant amount of changes over time. […]
PG Phriday: PgBouncer or Bust
/6 Comments/in Shaun's PlanetPostgreSQL /by Shaun ThomasWhat is the role of PgBouncer in a Postgres High Availability stack? What even is PgBouncer at the end of the day? Is it a glorified traffic cop, or an integral component critical to the long-term survival of a Postgres deployment? When we talk about Postgres High Availability, a lot of terms might spring to […]
Webinar: pglogical and Postgres-BDR Update [Follow Up]
/0 Comments/in 2ndQuadrant, Liaqat's PlanetPostgreSQL /by Liaqat AndrabiSince the release of v3, Postgres-BDR has evolved into the go-to clustering technology built specially for businesses that require geographically distributed databases with multiple masters. To get an update on Postgres-BDR’s development, new features, and future roadmap, 2ndQuadrant held the pglogical and Postgres-BDR Update webinar as part of its PostgreSQL webinar series. The webinar was […]
PostgreSQL 9.3 EOL – Why is it Important to Upgrade?
/0 Comments/in 2ndQuadrant, Liaqat's PlanetPostgreSQL, PostgreSQL /by Liaqat AndrabiAfter the final release of patch 9.3.25 on November 8th 2018, PostgreSQL 9.3 is no longer supported. Therefore it’s time for all users of PG 9.3 to upgrade their databases to a newer supported version. The benefits of having a supported version are many and that’s what Craig Ringer talks about in the Q&A session […]
[Video] Ansible and PostgreSQL
/0 Comments/in PostgreSQL, Tom's PlanetPostgreSQL /by Tom KincaidI don’t often get to speak on technical topics, but the video of my presentation below covers various concepts around “Ansible and PostgreSQL” – something I am very enthusiastic about. This presentation covers the following topics: Overview of Ansible and PostgreSQL Best strategies for mixed cloud and on-premises deployments How to deploy AlwaysOn PostgreSQL clusters […]
Databases vs. encryption
/12 Comments/in 2ndQuadrant, Tomas' PlanetPostgreSQL /by Tomas VondraLet’s assume you have some sensitive data, that you need to protect by encryption. It might be credit card numbers (the usual example), social security numbers, or pretty much anything you consider sensitive. It does not matter if the encryption is mandated by a standard like PCI DSS or if you just decided to encrypt […]
Webinar : Introduction to OmniDB [Follow Up]
/0 Comments/in 2ndQuadrant, Liaqat's PlanetPostgreSQL, OmniDB /by Liaqat AndrabiA database management tool that simplifies what is complex and drives performance. OmniDB is one such tool with which you can connect to several different databases – including PostgreSQL, Oracle, MySQL and others. 2ndQuadrant recently hosted a webinar on this very topic: Introduction to OmniDB. The webinar was presented by OmniDB co-founders and PostgreSQL consultants […]