I have previously written a blog post on the detailed steps involved in enabling PostgreSQL monitoring using PMM. In that post, you could see me talking about the role: pg_monitor that can be granted to monitoring users. The
pg_monitor role restricts a monitoring user from accessing user data but only grants access to statistic […]
Recently we published a blog about a very simple application failover using libpq features which could be the simplest of all automatic application connection routing. In this blog post, we are discussing how a proxy server using HAProxy can be used for connection routing which is a well-known technique with very wide deployment. There […]
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PostgreSQL is a widely-used Open Source database and has been the DBMS of the year for the past 2 years in
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When you build replication in PostgreSQL using Streaming replication, you cannot perform writes to a standby node; only reads. This way, you could offload reads or reporting queries to standby servers and send writes to master. Additionally, starting from PostgreSQL 10,
libpq and
psql clients could probe the connection for a master and allow […]
PostgreSQL 12 can be considered revolutionary considering the performance boost we observe with partitioning enhancements, planner improvements, several SQL features, Indexing improvements, etc. You may see some of such features discussed in future blog posts. But, let me start this blog with something interesting. You might have already seen some news that there is […]
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