OmniDB 2.4.0 introduces a new cool feature called Monitoring Dashboard. We know a picture is worth a thousand words, so please take a look: As you can see, this is...
The PostgreSQL Developer Meeting went well with attendees from UK, Czechia, US, Russia and Germany. The meeting is in Brussels, near the FOSDEM conference. Andreas Seltenreich was the new face...
Unless you were in Sydney for linux.conf.au 2018 last week you probably didn’t see my talk Geographically distributed multi-master replication with PostgreSQL and BDR. Luckily for you it’s on archive.org...
My colleague Alvaro Herrera has been working on a series of connected features for PostgreSQL 11. It’s worth explaining what these are rather than trying to piece together what is...
Backups are a critical component to a fully covered Postgres database infrastructure. In some ways, it’s fair to say a database without a backup is no database at all—sometimes literally...
Spectre and Meltdown have caused severe alarm in recent days. You may have read about up to 30% impact on PostgreSQL databases, which I believe to be overstated because of...
The annual DBEngines ranking have just been updated, with PostgreSQL winning the “DBMS of the Year 2017” award. http://db-engines.com/en/blog_post/76 PostgreSQL was a runner up last year. http://db-engines.com/en/blog_post/67 So across the...
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...
