Announcing Barman 1.5.1

2ndQuadrant is proud to announce the release of version 1.5.1 of Barman, Backup and Recovery Manager for PostgreSQL. This minor release introduces support for ‘per-server’ concurrency of maintenance operations through...
November 16, 2015

Benchmarking Postgres-XL

As you may have noted from my previous blog, the last few months were busy in getting Postgres-XL up-to-date with the latest 9.5 release of PostgreSQL. Once we had a...
November 09, 2015

User Tip: Postgres Plus 9.4 and Global Temporary Tables

EnterpriseDB (EDB) customers who moved/migrated their database from Oracle to EDB’s Postgres Plus Advanced Server (PPAS) frequently ask for Global Temporary Table in PPAS. Currently, PPAS doesn’t support Global Temporary...
October 21, 2015

Ansible Loves PostgreSQL

Ansible is simply great and PostgreSQL is surely awesome, let’s see how they work amazingly together! ==================== Prime time announcement ! ==================== PGConf Europe 2015 will be on 27th-30th of...
October 19, 2015

Testing Postgres-XL with DBT-3

As people have been working on merging Postgres-XL with the PostgreSQL 9.5 branch, I’ve been trying out Postgres-XL’s ability to run a decision support-like workload. The DBT-3 test kit, originally...
October 08, 2015

Getting WAL files from Barman with 'get-wal'

Barman 1.5.0 enhances the robustness and business continuity capabilities of PostgreSQL clusters, integrating the get-wal command with any standby server’s restore_command. In this blog article I will go over the...
October 06, 2015

Announcing Barman 1.5.0

Version 1.5.0 of Barman, Backup and Recovery Manager for PostgreSQL, has been released. Barman is now able to return upon request any available WAL file for a given server, allowing...
September 28, 2015