Julien Tachoires

Senior Performance Engineer, EDB

Prior to working at EDB, Julien was CTO of the French PostgreSQL leader company, working with PostgreSQL and developing open source tools for PostgreSQL for the past 14 years. In his current role as Senior Performance Engineer, he's working on the EDB deployment tools edb-ansible and postgres-deployment and doing performance benchmarking on solutions in PostgreSQL ecosystem.

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EDB Labs

Transparent Data Encryption Impacts on EDB Postgres Advanced Server 15

Transparent data encryption (TDE) is an optional feature supported by version 15 of EDB Postgres Advanced Server and EDB Postgres Extended Server. It encrypts any user data stored in the database system. This encryption is transparent to the user.
EDB Labs

PostgreSQL Performance Improvements - Part 1: Tracking PostgreSQL Performance Across Versions

Each new major release of PostgreSQL comes with many new and exciting features, security enhancements, and performance improvements. But, what specific performance gains are seen when upgrading outdated database clusters to the latest major version, PostgreSQL 15?

You Can Now Pick Your Favorite Compression Algorithm For Your WALs!

Since version 9.5, PostgreSQL offers the possibility to compress WAL records (when full-page writes are enabled) via the wal_compression parameter. Before PostgreSQL 15, when WAL compression was enabled, only one compression algorithm was available: pglz.
Technical Blog

Performance Improvements in EDB Postgres Distributed

The latest 3.7 version of EDB Postgres Distributed - a multi-master replication extension for Postgres - provides parallel apply, an interesting new feature that can significantly improve the performance of data replication up to 5X.
Product Updates

Ansible Collection for PostgreSQL and EDB Components

In this blog post, we will do a quick introduction of an Ansible Collection we have built with one goal: “Making PostgreSQL Easier.”