Following on the heels of our PostgreSQL Tuples Statistics Dashboard, here’s another blog post describing how you can gain additional visibility of PostgreSQL queries using PMM. We take a look at using an extension called pg_stat_statements. This allows us to collect information about the various queries running in your PostgreSQL instance. We’ll describe how […]
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PostgreSQL has a very unique way to review the code submitted by developers. Most open source software uses Github pull requests to accommodate users’ code. PostgreSQL has a Github page but doesn’t manage pull requests using Github. Many years ago, PostgreSQL introduced CommitFest to manage its patches, where postgres opens for a three to […]
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There’s just one week to go before the first of this year’s Percona University events in South America. We’re really pleased with the lineup for all three events. We’re also incredibly happy with the response that we have had from the community. While we realize that a free event is… well… free… you are […]
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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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Native streaming replication in PostgreSQL works only between servers running the same major version. We discussed about logical replication in our previous blog post. In that post, we saw how logical replication could help us set up migration between two different PostgreSQL versions. However, logical replication works only for the currently supported versions of […]
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Please join Percona’s Product Manager, Michael Coburn, as he presents his talk Extending and Customizing Percona Monitoring and Management on April 10th, 2019 at 10:00 AM PDT (UTC-7) / 1:00 PM EDT (UTC-4).
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While the PMM Engineering team is working on the polish for release of PMM 2, I wanted to share with you some of the dashboard improvements we’re making around PostgreSQL, specifically how you can plot Tuple Statistics using PMM. PMM (Percona Monitoring and Management) is a free and open-source platform for managing and monitoring MySQL®, MongoDB®, […]
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PostgreSQL is a powerful open source relational database management system. It extends the SQL language with additional features. A DBMS is not only defined by its performance and out of the box features, but also its ability to support bespoke/additional user-specific functionality. Some of these functionalities may be in the form of database constructs […]
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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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Database management systems are meant to house data but, occasionally, they may need to talk with another DBMS. For example, to access an external server which may be hosting a different DBMS. With heterogeneous environments becoming more and more common, a bridge between the servers is established. We call this bridge a “Foreign Data […]
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