It took longer than expected, but we have finally managed to release Barman as open-source under GNU GPL 3. Barman stands for “ Backup and Recovery Manager” and it is...
In this article we will see one of the most interesting features added in Greenplum 4.2: XML datatype support. Introduction This article has an educational goal. Most likely you will...
2ndQuadrant is happy to announce the release of Barman 1.0. Barman (backup and recovery manager) is an open source administration tool for disaster recovery of PostgreSQL servers written in Python...
**External web tables** are one of the most useful features when you you have to load data into a Greenplum database from different sources. ## What is an external table...
JDBC is the driver used to access a database with Java. Greenplum has a full working JDBC implementation. In this short article we’ll see how to use it. ## Download...
With an announce on the forum, Greenplum staff has spoke out about the new version of their Database Management System. I can’t resist to blog about some of its new...
In the [previous article](https://www.2ndquadrant.com/en/2011/12/a-greenplum-41-handbook.html) we have seen how to install Greenplum on multiple nodes. After installation steps, we must init the entire system. Let’s see how. ## Actual situation If...
One of the main advantages using Greenplum is that it gains power when it uses multiple nodes. Horizontal scalability is a main feature of Greenplum. Here is a compact handbook...
The fifth edition of the Italian PGDay went well beyond our initial expectations. We had about 75 participants, a total of 95 people including staff and speakers. As I said...
Greenplum does not officially support Ubuntu Server 11.10 as underlying operating system. However, I needed to install it on the most recent Ubuntu server just to perform some tests and...
