A move to the cloud helps with agility because we can seperate the work to innovate, that is write new code, new queries and new business procedures, from the work...
The exclusive backup mode was deprecated since PostgreSQL 9.6 when non-exclusive backups were introduced. PostgreSQL 15 finally removes that long-deprecated feature and, to avoid any confusion, renames the pg_start_backup() and...
Streaming replication is a core utility of PostgreSQL introduced in version 9.0. Streaming replication allows a standby server to stay more up-to-date than is possible with file-based log shipping.
Moving databases to the cloud is undoubtedly a target for many organizations, but doing so is not risk-free. Businesses need to fully investigate and understand potential weaknesses of cloud database...
Read or Listen: For many of our customers, High Availability is a key concern. Their architects spend a lot of time in designing and planning for high availability of applications...
One of the guiding Postgres design principles is heavy reliance on features provided by the environment (particularly operating system) and file systems are a prime example of this. Unlike other...
The PostgreSQL project roadmap is quite simple: there is a new major version each year around October/November and minor versions each quarter (unless there is a critical bug to fix)...
Postgres Shared Buffers remains one of the most difficult parameters to configure since its inception. Beyond an initial estimate, query patterns, relative storage performance, available resources, and realistic limits can...
Developers surveyed by Stack Overflow voted Postgres the most loved database, overtaking Redis, which held this spot for the last five years. (Oracle is third from the bottom on the...
With BigAnimal, EDB’s fully managed service offers 24x7 monitoring & operations, so you don’t have to worry about the underlying infrastructure of the database or availability. This includes automatic backups...
