Oracle's rising open source problem

A salesman from Oracle recently spoke to my sales colleague at a conference, teasing him that he should “come make some money”. That was quite surprising, given Oracle’s well documented...
July 10, 2016

Evolution of Fault Tolerance in PostgreSQL

“It is paradoxical, yet true, to say, that the more we know, the more ignorant we become in the absolute sense, for it is only through enlightenment that we become...
July 04, 2016

Using Querydsl with PostgreSQL

Querydsl is a domain model centric ORM that was created out of a need to add typesafety to HQL. As demonstrated in my blog on HQL, to write queries using...
June 30, 2016

Letter from Japan

Greetings, honourable reader. My name is Barwick of the 2ndQuadrant Company. With the onset of the Plum Rain, in my humble estimation it has become hot and humid recently. I...
June 22, 2016

Concurrent backups with Barman and PostgreSQL 9.6

PostgreSQL 9.6 has extended the traditional framework available for physical backups by allowing users to take backups concurrently. Barman will transparently support this new set of functions without requiring the...
June 20, 2016

Finding your PostgreSQL version

Questions How do you tell what version of PostgreSQL you are using? What is the version number of your PostgreSQL server? What’s the release of your Postgres server? What release...
June 15, 2016

Second Edition of 5432...MeetUs!

The second edition of the 5432…MeetUs! conference is sure to be one to remember. They will be hosting PostgreSQL experts, users, and contributors from all over the world. With talks...
June 09, 2016