Simplifying compilation of PostgreSQL on Windows

As part of some internal continuous integration and testing work, I’ve put together some scripts to simplify the compilation of PostgreSQL on Windows. PostgreSQL its self is pretty easy to...
January 09, 2013

Barman 1.1.2 released

Version 1.1.2 of Barman, backup and recovery manager for PostgreSQL, has been officially released and is publicly available for download. This minor release includes: Support for the “configuration_files_directory” option that...
December 10, 2012

79 real attendees at the Italian PGDay

The sixth edition of the Italian PGDay took place in Prato at the Monash University Centre last Friday, November 23rd. As president of the Italian PostgreSQL Users Group (most likely...
November 27, 2012

Improving PostgreSQL performance on AWS EC2

Questions periodically come up on the PostgreSQL mailing list regarding Amazon EC2 and how to get PostgreSQL to perform well on it. The general feeling on the list appears to...
November 19, 2012

My "top 5" for PGConf.eu in Prague

I have just returned from the breath-taking Prague for the 5th edition of the European conference of PostgreSQL, now called PGConf.eu. The “baby” once called PGDay has now grown into...
October 31, 2012

Released Barman 1.1.1

2ndQuadrant announces the release of Barman 1.1.1. This minor version fixes a small bug with the “barman recover” command, introduced with version 1.1.0. Barman users are encouraged to update their...
October 20, 2012