pglogical 2.1 and Logical Replication in PostgreSQL 10

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...
December 13, 2017

PG Phriday: Getting RAD with Docker [Part 4]

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...
December 08, 2017

pgxc_ctl: Teaching Postgres-XL in New York City

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...
December 01, 2017

PG Phriday: Getting RAD with Docker [Part 3]

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...
November 24, 2017

PG Phriday: Getting RAD with Docker [Part 2]

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...
November 10, 2017

How long does it take to change your mind?

You’re clever, which means you’re mostly right about things. But everybody is wrong sometime, so how long does it take for you to change your mind? People don’t often change...
November 03, 2017

OmniDB - Now with PL/pgSQL debugger!

OmniDB’s 2.3.0 release, which is coming out on November 2nd, comes with a much requested feature: a debugger for PL/pgSQL functions. This post will walk you through the steps to...
October 31, 2017