pglogical 1.2 with PostgreSQL 9.6 support

PostgreSQL 9.6 is now out and so is an updated version of pglogical that works with it. For quick guide on how to upgrade the database with pglogical you can...
October 20, 2016

PostgreSQL and the Platinum Guarantee

2ndQuadrant experts have recently fixed a bug in PostgreSQL, outstanding since the 9.3 release, that causes Free Space Map (FSM) corruption, resulting in INSERT/UPDATE queries to fail on the affected...
October 19, 2016

BDR History and future

BDR is both a patch to PostgreSQL core and an extension on top of PostgreSQL core. How did that come about, and what’s it’s future? Development of BDR was initiated...
October 18, 2016

Load data in Postgres-XL at over 9M rows/sec

We are faced with this question: “What’s the ingestion rate of Postgres-XL ?”, and I realised I don’t have a very good answer to that. Since recently we made some...
October 13, 2016

More ‘POWER’ for PostgreSQL

Now Available! Debian and Ubuntu packages for Power Architecture. The official announcement was published last Friday, September 30, 2016: the PostgreSQL repository for Debian and Ubuntu packages, apt.postgresql.org, has been...
October 07, 2016

Can't connect to OpenVPN on Linux, VERIFY_ERROR, TLS_ERROR?

If you’re unable to connect to OpenVPN on Linux (Feodra 21, recent Ubuntu, etc) and are seeing errors like: VERIFY ERROR: depth=0, error=certificate signature failure: C=AU, ST=WA, O=ExampleCompany, CN=server, emailAddress=example@example.com...
October 07, 2016

"mock", Fedora 24, perl, and locales

If your Mock builds are complaining about perl locales, like perl: warning: Setting locale failed. perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings: LANGUAGE = "en_US:en", LC_ALL = (unset), LANG...
October 05, 2016