When I talk to various people about PostgreSQL, based on where they are in the process of analyzing it, I get asked many similar questions. One of the most frequently...
CHAR(16) Conference (now known as 2QPGConf) on Scalability for Business went very well in the heart of New York City. Hotel Pennsylvania was a great venue; convenient for travel and...
What to do when disaster strikes… (various topics) King Kong attacks! Lure up tall building and attack with biplanes Godzilla’s eggs hatch Team up with European Special Forces operative to...
While tweaking postgresql.conf, you might have noticed there’s an option called full_page_writes. The comment next to it says something about partial page writes, and people generally leave it set to...
If you live in the Melbourne area and you are passionate about PostgreSQL then don’t miss the chance to come to the Melbourne PostgreSQL Users Group Meetup this Monday, 21...
I’ve just seen a presentation that says you can save money by running PostgreSQL in the cloud, because you won’t need to apply database software patches yourself. Hmmm. So what...
Keynote at PgConf.EU was well attended. I have already written about my impressions of the conference here. PostgreSQL is becoming a complete solution architecture for data, based upon the capabilities...
Wed 2 Nov Michiel Toneman from Adyen kicked things off with a keynote mentioning how Adyen have been using PostgreSQL for the past 9 years. I wasn’t aware Michiel was...
The PostgreSQL user community is becoming spoilt with a choice of excellent events organized by both local user groups and commercial organizations supporting the PostgreSQL project. And amongst the events...
In my last blog , we looked at the benchmark results from bulk load test for a Postgres-XL database cluster. Using a 16-datanode, 2-coordinator cluster, running on EC2 instances, we...
