I have released version 6.1 of the PostgreSQL Buildfarm client. It is available at http://buildfarm.postgresql.org/downloads/releases/build-farm-6_1.tgz This release fixes a couple of bugs that became apparent in yesterday’s release. The first...
PostgreSQL Buildfarm client Release 6 is now available and can be downloaded from http://buildfarm.postgresql.org/downloads/releases/build-farm-6.tgz Features use a persistent cache for configure, leading to a substantial performance improvement for that step...
ZFS is a filesystem originally created by Sun Microsystems, and has been available for BSD over a decade. While Postgres will run just fine on BSD, most Postgres installations are...
On 12-Dec-2017, 2ndQuadrant held the first in a series of PostgreSQL webinars. The session was conducted by Andrew Dunstan, Principal Contributor of JSON functionality to PostgreSQL and Senior Developer &...
One of the headline features of the brand new PostgreSQL release out 2 months ago is Logical Replication. Logical replication allows more flexibility than physical replication, including replication between different...
PgBouncer is a popular proxy and pooling layer for Postgres. It’s extremely common to reconfigure PgBouncer with repmgr so it always directs connections to the current primary node. It just...
Last week marked a rather big step in the PostgreSQL world that went largely unnoticed. Thanks to the work done by 2ndQuadrant contributors, we now have the ability to write...
At the 2ndQuadrant PostgreSQL conference in New York City this year, I had the pleasure of delivering a training on Postgres-XL together with Andrew Dunstan. We capped the attendees at...
Building an Immortal Cluster By now we’ve learned about basic Postgres Docker usage and rudimentary clustering. For the uninitiated, constructing a Postgres cluster can be a daunting task, and we’ve...
In our last article, we explored how to run Postgres in some very basic Docker scenarios. Based on our experiments back then, we can obtain images, create containers, and mount...
