Florin Irion

Postgres Distributed Developer

Florin Irion started his PostgreSQL journey in 2017 with 2ndQuadrant, primarily in support, gaining valuable insights into its use. He now works as a Postgres Distributed Developer at EDB on the PGD (Postgres Distributed) extension, which provides high availability, active-active architecture, and advanced conflict management for distributed PostgreSQL clusters.  


Florin contributes to the PostgreSQL codebase and volunteers at Postgres events. He believes passion is essential for anyone working with PostgreSQL, fostering improvement and making the experience enjoyable.

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PostgreSQL Logical and Physical Replication Comparison and the Advantages of Distributed PGD

PostgreSQL offers powerful physical and logical replication mechanisms for ensuring data availability. EDB's Postgres Distributed (PGD) builds on these by providing an advanced, flexible distributed database solution, offering active-active replication, high availability, and data distribution. PGD addresses limitations of traditional replication through features like selective replication, advanced conflict management, and DDL replication, enabling highly available, scalable, and resilient distributed PostgreSQL clusters