When Damien Clochard from the French/European Community of PostgreSQL posted this message in the Advocacy list of PostgreSQL, I could not believe my eyes. I felt like years of promotion of PostgreSQL in Europe by the community finally received a first important recognition among the public sector. As European citizen, I have always believed that public administrations throughout Europe should use...

As my French colleague Dimitri Fontaine was pointing out a few days ago, PostgreSQL 9.2 is out. This is another great release for PostgreSQL, but we are already ahead in the development of the next release: PostgreSQL 9.3. The Italian team of 2ndQuadrant has been working since last year on adding a new feature to PostgreSQL: support of referential integrity between the elements of an array in a...

The sixth edition of the Italian PGDay will be held in Prato on November 23 in the historical location of the Monash University Centre. The call for papers has officially been opened today. International speakers are most welcome. Although the event is primarily intended for an Italian language audience (Italy and Switzerland), talks in English from members of the international Community of...

Barman, backup and recovery manager for PostgreSQL, is designed to manage the archive of WAL files separately from periodical backups (in Postgres terms, base backups). You can see this archive as a “continuous” stream of files from the first available backup to the last shipped file (backup available history for a server). In this article you will see how Barman manages WAL compression and...

It took longer than expected, but we have finally managed to release Barman as open-source under GNU GPL 3. Barman stands for “ Backup and Recovery Manager” and it is an administration tool for disaster recovery of PostgreSQL servers. Currently only Linux systems are officially supported, however Python allows to plan porting and maintenance on different platforms as well. The idea of starting...

2ndQuadrant is happy to announce the release of Barman 1.0. Barman (backup and recovery manager) is an open source administration tool for disaster recovery of PostgreSQL servers written in Python for Linux systems. It allows remote backups of multiple Postgres servers in business critical environments and helps database administrators during the recovery phase. Barman’s most wanted features...

The fifth edition of the Italian PGDay went well beyond our initial expectations. We had about 75 participants, a total of 95 people including staff and speakers. As I said during the event, rather than PGDay Italy, this should be named PGDay for Italian speakers given the presence of staff from Switzerland (Canton Ticino). Participants came from 12 regions: all regions but Val d’Aosta in the...

The Call for Papers for the Italian PGDay has been extended of a week. The new deadline for submitting a paper is October 23. English speakers can send their proposals to pgday2011@itpug.org (more information is available here: http://2011.pgday.it/sites/default/files/PGDay2011-CFP-EN_0.pdf ). Rooms for developers and training are available as well. The Italian PGDay 2011 will take place in Prato...

The Italian PGDay 2011 will take place in Prato, on Friday November 25th, at the Monash University Prato Centre. Exactly, where it all started. The event, organised by the Italian PostgreSQL Users Group, will be a great chance for both Italian and European members of the PostgreSQL community to gather together and to promote PostgreSQL. Even though the schedule is not out, early bird registrations...

Greenplum Community Edition is available in different flavours, including a VMWare virtual machine based on CentOS with all the fancy tools and the documentation already installed. This allows you to easily try and evaluate this powerful platform for data warehousing. [Greg Smith from our 2ndQuadrant team, recently explained how to install this image on Linux](http://www.greenplum.com/community...