The first Australian PostgreSQL conference has come to an end and I am extremely happy that I was part of it. The event took place in Melbourne, at the offices...
The sixth edition of the Italian PGDay will be held in Prato on November 23 in the historical location of the Monash University Centre. The call for papers has officially...
Barman, backup and recovery manager for PostgreSQL, is designed to manage the archive of WAL files separately from periodical backups (in Postgres terms, base backups). You can see this archive...
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...
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...
Mapreduce is a very trendy software framework. It has been introduced by Google (TM) in 2004. It is a large topic, and it is not possible to cover all of...
In this article, I am going to upgrade a Greenplum cluster from version 4.0 to 4.1 using `gpmigrator`. `gpmigrator` is an utility shipped with Greenplum Community Edition whose purpose is...
