I periodically see people being advised to put their tablspaces on RAM disks or tempfs volumes. This is very bad advice. Do not put a PostgreSQL TABLESPACE on a RAM...
Version 1.3.1 of Barman, Backup and Recovery Manager for PostgreSQL, has been released. Barman now supports concurrent backup from PostgreSQL 9.2 and 9.3 servers, using the pgespresso extension, allowing users...
PostgreSQL tiene varios tipos de índices: B-tree, Hash, GiST, Gin y SP-GiST. Obviamente cada uno de ellos cubre una necesidad específica. Por ejemplo, la documentación de PostgreSQL dice sobre los...
Version 2.0 of repmgr, Replication Manager for PostgreSQL clusters, has been released. This release introduces a new experimental feature, autofailover. With autofailover repmgr is able to automatically promote a standby...
Version 2.0RC2 of repmgr, Replication Manager for PostgreSQL clusters, has been released. This release introduces a new experimental feature, autofailover. With autofailover repmgr is able to automatically promote a standby...
In the next week I will be writing a series of posts about the row-security work I’ve been doing for PostgreSQL 9.4 as part of the EU’s AXLE project. I...
Streaming replication slots are a pending feature in PostgreSQL 9.4, as part of the logical changeset extraction feature. What are they for, what do you need to know, what changes...
With every new release, PostgreSQL gets better at addressing the needs of developers, database and system administrators. If you are part of a dynamic business that delivers high quality products...
Version 2.0RC1 of repmgr, Replication Manager for PostgreSQL clusters, has been released. This release introduces a new experimental feature, autofailover. With autofailover repmgr is able to automatically promote a standby...
Version 1.3.0 of Barman, Backup and Recovery Manager for PostgreSQL, has been released, making the tool more robust through a new code infrastructure in terms of output, subprocesses, remote commands...