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Geo-redundancy of PostgreSQL database backups with Barman

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Barman 2.6 introduces support for geo-redundancy, meaning that Barman can now copy from another Barman instance, not just a PostgreSQL database.

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PostgreSQL with passphrase-protected SSL keys under systemd

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PostgreSQL supports SSL, and SSL private keys can be protected by a passphrase. Many people choose not to use passphrases with their SSL keys, and that’s perhaps fine. This blog post is about what happens when you do have a passphrase. If you have SSL enabled and a key with a passphrase and you start […]

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Webinar: Banking on Postgres – Financial Application Considerations [Follow up]

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The 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, […]

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Maintaining feature branches and submitting patches with Git

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I 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. […]

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Webinar: pglogical and Postgres-BDR Update [Follow Up]

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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 […]

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[Video] Ansible and PostgreSQL

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I 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 […]

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Webinar : Introduction to OmniDB [Follow Up]

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A 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 […]

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Sequential UUID Generators

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UUIDs are a popular identifier data type – they are unpredictable, and/or globally unique (or at least very unlikely to collide) and quite easy to generate. Traditional primary keys based on sequences won’t give you any of that, which makes them unsuitable for public identifiers, and UUIDs solve that pretty naturally. But there are disadvantages […]

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OmniDB debugger for PostgreSQL 11

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PostgreSQL 11 was released recently, with exciting new features. One of them is the ability to write SQL procedures that can perform full transaction management, enabling developers to create more advanced server-side applications. SQL procedures can be created using the CREATE PROCEDURE command and executed using the CALL command. Since OmniDB 2.3.0 it is possible […]

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