A couple of weeks ago I presented at Percona University São Paulo about the new features in PostgreSQL that allow the deployment of simple shards. I’ve tried to summarize the main points in this post, as well as providing an introductory overview of sharding itself. Please note I haven’t included any third-party extensions that […]
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pgBackRest addresses many of the must-have features that you’ll want to look for in a PostgreSQL backup solution. I have been a great fan of the pgBackRest project for quite some time, and it gets better all the time. Historically, it was written in perl and now over the last year, the project is […]
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Please join Percona’s PostgreSQL Support Technical Lead, Avinash Vallarapu and Senior Support Engineers, Fernando Laudares, Jobin Augustine and Nickolay Ihalainen as they demonstrate the methods to upgrade a legacy version of PostgreSQL to a newer version using built-in as well as open source tools.
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When you need to upgrade your PostgreSQL databases, there are a number of options available to you. In this post we’ll take a look at how you can upgrade PostgreSQL versions using pg_upgrade, a built-in tool that allows in-place upgrade of your software. Using pg_upgrade allows you, potentially, to minimize your downtime, an essential […]
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When you need to upgrade PostgreSQL, there are a variety of approaches that you can use. To avoid application downtime, then not all of the options to upgrade postgres are suitable. When avoiding downtime is essential, then you might consider using replication as a means of upgrade, and depending on your scenario, you can […]
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In this blog post, we will explore
pg_dump /
pg_restore, one of the most commonly used options for performing a PostgreSQL upgrade. It is important to understand the scenarios under which
pg_dump and
pg_restore utilities will be helpful.
This post is the second of our Upgrading or Migrating Your Legacy PostgreSQL to Newer PostgreSQL Versions […]
There are several approaches to assess when you need to upgrade PostgreSQL. In this blog post, we look at the option for upgrading a postgres database using pg_dumpall. As this tool can also be used to back up PostgreSQL clusters, then it is a valid option for upgrading a cluster too. We consider the […]
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A date for your diary. On Wednesday, April 17 at 7:00 AM PDT (UTC-7) / 10:00 AM EDT (UTC-4) Percona’s PostgreSQL Support Technical Lead, Avinash Vallarapu and Senior Support Engineers, Fernando Laudares, Jobin Augustine and Nickolay Ihalainen, will demonstrate the upgrade of a legacy version of PostgreSQL to a newer version, using built-in as well […]
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PostgreSQL is emerging as the standard destination for database migrations from proprietary databases. As a consequence, there is an increase in demand for database side code migration and associated performance troubleshooting. One might be able to trace the latency to a plsql function, but explaining what happens within a function could be a difficult […]
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Just-in-time (JIT in PostgreSQL) compilation of SQL statements is one of the highlighted features in PostgreSQL 11. There is great excitement in the community because of the many claims of up to a 30% jump in performance. Not all queries and workloads get the benefit of JIT compilation. So you may want to test your workload against this […]
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