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Kanban & devops culture at 2ndQuadrant – Part 2

June 8, 2017/0 Comments/in DevOps /by Gabriele Bartolini

In Part 2 of this series, we will continue our journey within the developmental dynamics of the Barman open source project for PostgreSQL database backup and disaster recovery. After providing a small introduction to devops and Kanban in Part 1, let’s focus on the basic element of our daily management: The Boards.

Kanban & devops culture at 2ndQuadrant – Part 1

May 25, 2017/0 Comments/in DevOps /by Gabriele Bartolini

We very often hear about devops culture, lean and agile methodologies, kanban, pair programming, peer review, testing, and many more; but how many of us could effectively put these things into practice?

Using the PostgreSQL TAP framework in extensions

April 10, 2017/3 Comments/in Craig's PlanetPostgreSQL /by craig.ringer

Support for using the TAP protocol to run extended regression tests was added to PostgreSQL back in 9.4 with the adoption of Perl’s prove tool and Test::More to test initdb, pg_basebackup, etc. Since then the TAP-based tests have been greatly expanded, particularly with the advent of the src/test/recovery tests and the PostgresNode module in PostgreSQL […]

Inserting JSONB data in PostgreSQL 9.6

January 26, 2017/0 Comments/in Rubens' PlanetPostgreSQL /by Rubens Souza

The `jsonb_insert` function brought in with PostgreSQL 9.6 gives more control when inserting new values into a jsonb array and/or new keys into a jsonb object. This article introduces this new function together with some examples.

Barman 2.1 and the new –archive option

January 9, 2017/0 Comments/in Giulio's PlanetPostgreSQL /by Giulio Calacoci

Barman 2.1 Version 2.1 of Barman, backup and recovery manager for PostgreSQL, was released Thursday, Jan. 5. The new release, along with several bugfixes, introduces preliminary support for the upcoming PostgreSQL 10, and adds the –archive option to the switch-xlog command. switch-xlog –archive The new –archive option is especially useful when setting up a new […]

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, […]

The PostgreSQL License – What Does It Mean For My Business?

December 13, 2016/5 Comments/in Umair's PlanetPostgreSQL /by Umair Shahid

When I talk to various people about PostgreSQL, based on where they are in the process of analyzing it, I get asked many similar questions. One of the most frequently asked questions is: What is the PostgreSQL licensing model? Here is my attempt to address this question from the perspective of what the PostgreSQL license […]

Back to the Future Part 3: pg_rewind with PostgreSQL 9.6

October 17, 2016/0 Comments/in 2ndQuadrant, Giuseppe's PlanetPostgreSQL /by 2ndQuadrant Press

This is the third and last part of blog articles dedicated to pg_rewind. In the two previous articles we have seen how pg_rewind is useful to fix split-brain events due to mistakes in the switchover procedures, avoiding the need of new base backups. We have also seen that this is true for simple replication clusters, […]

Untangling the PostgreSQL upgrade

September 30, 2016/8 Comments/in pglogical, PostgreSQL /by Martín Marqués

PostgreSQL 9.6 has just been released and most of the postgres users will start asking themselves how to upgrade to the new major version. This post has the intention of showing different procedures for upgrading your PostgreSQL server. Upgrading to a new major version is a task which has a high ratio of preparation over […]

Committed to the PostgreSQL Community, 2ndQuadrant Contributes to 9.6

September 29, 2016/3 Comments/in 2ndQuadrant, Featured, Umair's PlanetPostgreSQL /by Umair Shahid

The latest version of PostgreSQL 9.6 is planned to be released later today, bringing with it some much anticipated features and updates. As the most advanced open source database, PostgreSQL strives to release a major version roughly once every year. With an active and collaborative community, this PostgreSQL release boasts impressive features and updates thanks […]