Announcing Barman 1.3.1

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...
April 14, 2014

Indexando ando: Índices GIN

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...
April 02, 2014

Announcing repmgr 2.0

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...
March 19, 2014

Announcing repmgr 2.0RC2

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...
March 03, 2014

Row security in PostgreSQL - Overview

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...
February 26, 2014

Streaming replication slots in PostgreSQL 9.4

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...
February 25, 2014

Managing PostgreSQL in a devops environment

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...
February 14, 2014

Announcing repmgr 2.0RC1

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...
February 07, 2014

Announcing Barman 1.3.0

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...
February 03, 2014