Phil Hankinson

Senior Consultant, Professional Services Division, EDB

Phil has 25 years experience working with relational database systems and is a Senior Consultant in the Professional Services Division of EnterpriseDB. Located in Sweden, Phil works mainly in EMEA (specifically the Nordics) but often spends time on client sites around the world, delivering training, as well as specialised knowledge transfer and professional services on topics including configuration, testing and coding of database systems. Phil is a regular public speaker and trainer who has developed expertise in explaining complex technology to audiences. Previously, he has worked as a freelance consultant around the world supporting well-known companies in diverse sectors, including banking, telecommunications, utilities and the legal sector.

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Postgres Tutorials
If you are installing EDB on RHEL7 machines, RPMs are the way to go.
Postgres Tutorials
A caveat: Peter Eisentraut (formerly of 2nd Quadrant, now an EDB company) and myself are both now EDB employees. On August 13th, 2020 Peter Eisentraut blogged on the topic of spinning up multiple instances of pgBouncer listening on the same port to scale pgBouncer across more than one thread on a multi-threaded machine. Peter’s blog remains the one-stop shop for leveraging the SO_REUSEPORT...