That’s right. Melbourne will be hosting the first Australian PostgreSQL Day, on February 4. The momentum continues as PGDay national events now expand to include the Asia Pacific region. Australia joins the long list of countries which have embraced the Community spirit that is the fundamental principle of the PostgreSQL project: Brasil, China, Argentina, Ecuador, […]
Announcing Barman 1.2.1
/0 Comments/in Barman, International News /by Gabriele BartoliniVersion 1.2.1 of Barman, Backup and Recovery Manager for PostgreSQL, has been released, introducing bandwidth limitation for both backup and recovery operations at three different levels: global, server (PostgreSQL instance) and tablespace.
Configuring retention policies in Barman
/7 Comments/in Barman, Gabriele's PlanetPostgreSQL /by Gabriele BartoliniIn our previous article we went through describing what retention policies are and how they can be enforced on your PostgreSQL server backups with Barman 1.2. In this post, we will go through the configuration aspects.
Retention of backups with Barman
/0 Comments/in Barman, Gabriele's PlanetPostgreSQL /by Gabriele BartoliniDefining a disaster recovery plan involves defining backup policies. A key aspect of backup policies is to define how long backup data is retained for disaster recovery purposes. This applies to all digital content, including PostgreSQL databases. Barman 1.2.0 introduces automated management of backup retention policies of PostgreSQL servers.
The first Australian PostgreSQL Day
/0 Comments/in Gabriele's PlanetPostgreSQL /by Gabriele BartoliniThe first Australian PostgreSQL conference has come to an end and I am extremely happy that I was part of it. The event took place in Melbourne, at the offices of Experian Hitwise in St Kilda Rd. I must confess that, going back to the same building where I had worked in 2005/2006, was a […]
Help us make a better PostgreSQL 9.3!
/9 Comments/in Craig's PlanetPostgreSQL /by craig.ringerAs interest in PostgreSQL grows, so does the rate at which new patches are proposed. To maintain the high level of quality in PostgreSQL it is important that all patches be checked and reviewed, so that what gets added to the codebase is good quality. Some of this evaluation requires a lot of expertise in […]
Cygwin users needed to test a patch for PostgreSQL 9.3
/0 Comments/in Craig's PlanetPostgreSQL /by craig.ringerCygwin users, If you use PostgreSQL on Cygwin, please try out this build fix, verifying that it works on Cygwin, and that it doesn’t break the Linux/BSD builds or the MinGW Windows builds. Your help would be appreciated in ensuring that Cygwin remains a supported platform into the future.
Testers needed for proposed 9.3 SEPostgreSQL enhancements
/0 Comments/in Craig's PlanetPostgreSQL /by craig.ringerSELinux / SEPostgreSQL users: There are some proposed improvements in the 2013-01 commitfest that might go into PostgreSQL 9.3 – but only if you help. Interested users are needed to try out the following patches and report back with their experiences if you want to see these changes in 9.3: The patches are: Add a […]
PostgreSQL regression tests hanging on Windows? Check path depth.
/0 Comments/in Craig's PlanetPostgreSQL /by craig.ringerI just confirmed the cause an extremely weird problem that’s been frustrating me for days. I want to share it so nobody else has to waste their time on this. It appears that – at least on my build machine, a Windows 7 SP1 x64 box with Windows SDK 7.1, Visual Studio 2010 Express SP1 […]
It’s a long way to Melbourne if you want to rock ‘n’ roll with Postgres!
/1 Comment/in Gabriele's PlanetPostgreSQL /by Gabriele BartoliniThat’s right. Melbourne will be hosting the first Australian PostgreSQL Day, on February 4. The momentum continues as PGDay national events now expand to include the Asia Pacific region. Australia joins the long list of countries which have embraced the Community spirit that is the fundamental principle of the PostgreSQL project: Brasil, China, Argentina, Ecuador, […]
Simplifying compilation of PostgreSQL on Windows
/2 Comments/in Craig's PlanetPostgreSQL /by craig.ringerAs part of some internal continuous integration and testing work, I’ve put together some scripts to simplify the compilation of PostgreSQL on Windows. PostgreSQL its self is pretty easy to compile on Windows. You download and install ActiveState Perl and Visual Studio or the Microsoft Windows SDK, unpack a PostgreSQL source tree, copy config_default.pl to […]