The 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 strange but positive feeling. Hitwise is a long time Postgres user and it would appear that their cluster of...

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, Canada, Italy, France, Germany...

Version 1.1.2 of Barman, backup and recovery manager for PostgreSQL, has been officially released and is publicly available for download. This minor release includes: Support for the “configuration_files_directory” option that allows to include multiple server configuration files from a directory Support for special backup IDs: latest, last, oldest, first Management of multiple servers to the...

One of the key aspects of Barman is the possibility to remotely backup multiple PostgreSQL servers from one single backup host. The upcoming version 1.1.2 of Barman will make this much easier from a system administrator’s point of view. Let’s see why. With Barman you can use the backup host as a simple backup server, and simply store backup data regarding different PostgreSQL version servers. Or...

The sixth edition of the Italian PGDay took place in Prato at the Monash University Centre last Friday, November 23rd. As president of the Italian PostgreSQL Users Group (most likely for the last time) and host of Prato, I had the pleasure to open the event and welcome all the attendees – coming from 11 regions of Italy. 79 real attendees (PostgreSQL users and potential ones), plus 16 among...

I have just returned from the breath-taking Prague for the 5th edition of the European conference of PostgreSQL, now called PGConf.eu. The “baby” once called PGDay has now grown into a 4 day conference with training, talks and social events. I was not able to attend the event in Stuttgart and Amsterdam, but I was active in Prato (2007 and 2008) and present in Paris (2009). However, I must admit...

2ndQuadrant announces the release of Barman 1.1.1. This minor version fixes a small bug with the “barman recover” command, introduced with version 1.1.0. Barman users are encouraged to update their systems to this version, which can be downloaded from Sourceforge.net.

Version 1.1.0 is the second release of Barman. Debian/Ubuntu packages are now available as well. This release includes: Support for hook scripts to be executed before and after a ‘backup’ command through the ‘pre_backup_script’ and ‘post_backup_script’ configuration options. Management of multiple servers to the ‘backup’ command. ‘barman backup all’ now iteratively backs up all the configured...

On the dawn of the release of version 1.1.0 of Barman, we are proud to publish our first video/spot for the promotion of our open source tool. The goal of the video is to emphasize the importance of physical hot backups and disaster recovery solutions for PostgreSQL databases operating in business critical environments. One of the most important news for version 1.1.0 is the availability of Debian...

The new deadline for submitting a paper for the 6th edition of the Italian PGDay is October 7. International speakers are more than welcome to submit their proposal through the “ International call for papers” section of the website. In the submission, we suggest international speakers to specify their travel expenses – as organisers we will evaluate them according to the budget. Important: you...