Sharding or horizontal scalability is a popular topic, discussed widely on PostgreSQL mailing lists these days. When we started the Postgres-XC project back in 2010, not everyone was convinced that...
Good news has come out to ensure your disaster recovery strategy is even better! Wait…what?! You don’t have a disaster recovery strategy?! No good, my friend, no good… But don’t...
Last week I was pleased to attend Code Sprint 2016 in Paris, organised by the OSGeo Foundation: it has been an opportunity for many GIS users from all over the...
You now have time until March 14th, 2016 to submit your talk to “5432…MeetUs!”, the conference organised by 2ndQuadrant that will take place in Milan next June 28th and 29th...
Version 1.6.0 of Barman, Backup and Recovery Manager for PostgreSQL, has been released. Barman is now able to receive WAL files via streaming replication protocol, as an additional channel (...
The 3rd annual Nordic PGDay will be held on 17th of March in Helsinki this year. Registration is still open, reserve yourselves a seat before it’s too late! Nordic PGDay...
Floss UK Spring conference will be held on 15th-17th of March in London. The conference is the UK’s oldest conference aimed specifically at systems and network administrators. It attracts a...
If you’ve been following PostgreSQL development for the last few years, you’ve probably heard the term commitfest manager a few times. You probably already know what a commitfest is, but...
I’m extremely pleased to see that after months of efforts and contributions by different people around the world, Postgres-XL 9.5 R1 Beta1 has finally arrived. This release is significantly better...
With just couple of weeks to go for PGDay India, I’m quite excited about the upcoming PostgreSQL conference at Bangalore on 26th February, 2016. This is going to be the...