I’ve started to write about the tool (pglupgrade) that I developed to perform near-zero downtime automated upgrades of PostgreSQL clusters. In this post, I’ll be talking about the tool and...
The world of PostgreSQL continues to grow stronger by the year! Last week we saw it all come together at PostgresConf US 2018 in Jersey City. The conference was held...
We all love PgBouncer. It’s a great way to multiplex tens, hundreds, or even thousands of client connections to a small handful of Postgres sessions. What isn’t necessarily so endearing...
Introduced in OmniDB 2.6.0, the new OmniDB Console Tab provides an easy and comfortable way to interact with your databases. Users familiar with the psql command line utility will find...
The feature freeze for the PostgreSQL 11 release is now upon us. During the last few days my colleague Álvaro Herrera pushed two changes into the development branch of PostgreSQL...
Given the massive size, complexity, and performance requirements of most databases, having an optimized database is critical for many organizations. A variety of different strategies are used for database performance...
Last week saw the 3rd event in as many years in Singapore, and yet this time something was very different. For the last 2 years, we had been conducting the...
When it comes to database security, the risk is definitely not worth the reward. Being hard-headed about database security procedures can not only disrupt your business and cost you millions...
Last week, I was at Nordic PGDay 2018 and I had quite a few conversations about the tool that I wrote, namely pglupgrade, to automate PostgreSQL major version upgrades in...