PgDay France 2016

31 May 2016 – http://pgday.fr/ PgDay France was a well attended conference with more than 140 attendees, with many presentations from PostgreSQL users further demonstrating just how popular PostgreSQL is...
June 01, 2016

Application users vs. Row Level Security

A few days ago I’ve blogged about the common issues with roles and privileges we discover during security reviews. Of course, PostgreSQL offers many advanced security-related features, one of them...
May 30, 2016

PostgreSQL-based application performance: latency and hidden delays

Goldfields Pipeline, by SeanMac ( Wikimedia Commons)If you’re trying to optimise the performance of your PostgreSQL-based application you’re probably focusing on the usual tools: EXPLAIN (BUFFERS, ANALYZE), pg_stat_statements, auto_explain, log_statement_min_duration...
May 23, 2016

Barman 1.6.1 is Released

2ndQuadrant is proud to announce the release of Barman version 1.6.1, a Backup and Recovery Manager for PostgreSQL. This minor release consolidates its central role in business continuity installations of...
May 23, 2016

How Postgres-XL is tested

The purpose of this blog is to explain the process of Quality Analysis that Postgres-XL goes through internally at 2ndQuadrant. Here, I describe the bare minimum tests that each release...
May 19, 2016