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May 24, 2022
A Quick Peek at the PostgreSQL 15 Beta 1
PostgreSQL 15 Beta 1 was announced on May 15th and to keep with the spirit of past peeks at MySQL [...]
May 5, 2022
Understand Your PostgreSQL Workloads Better with pg_stat_monitor
Awesome news, pg_stat_monitor has reached a GA STATUS! Percona has long been associated with pushing the limits and understanding the [...]
April 27, 2022
Working With Large PostgreSQL Databases
It’s a funny thing when the topic of database sizes comes up. Calling one small, medium, large, or even huge [...]
April 19, 2022
PostgreSQL 14 B-Tree Index: Reduced Bloat with Bottom-Up Deletion
Concurrent access to data within PostgreSQL is managed with the Multiversion Concurrency Control (MVCC) model. Data snapshots are maintained for [...]
April 13, 2022
Using PostgreSQL Tablespaces with Percona Operator for PostgreSQL
Tablespaces allow DBAs to store a database on multiple file systems within the same server and to control where (on [...]
April 13, 2022
Overcoming VACUUM WRAPAROUND
Transaction ID Wraparound occurs when the VACUUM process cannot keep up with database activity and the PostgreSQL service is forced [...]
March 24, 2022
PostgreSQL From the Perspective of a MySQL DBA
DBAs can be set in their ways. Oftentimes, we start with a particular flavor and from that moment until the [...]
March 15, 2022
Run PostgreSQL on Kubernetes with Percona Operator & Pulumi
Avoid vendor lock-in, provide a private Database-as-a-Service for internal teams, quickly deploy-test-destroy databases with CI/CD pipeline – these are some [...]
February 25, 2022
Logical Replication/Decoding Improvements in PostgreSQL 13 and 14
I recently blogged about how Patroni Addresses the Problem of the Logical Replication Slot Failover in a PostgreSQL Cluster. In [...]
February 8, 2022
PostgreSQL 14 Predefined Roles – Making Access Control Easy
The PostgreSQL RDBMS has shown rapid growth in terms of adoption and usability for a wide range of industries and [...]
January 31, 2022
How PostgreSQL Pipeline Mode Works
Note: In the original version of this post, there were some issues missed. These have been addressed at the bottom [...]
January 25, 2022
PostgreSQL 14 and Recent SCRAM Authentication Changes – Should I Migrate to SCRAM?
Recently, a few PostgreSQL users reported that they got connection failures after switching to PostgreSQL 14. “Why do I get [...]
January 13, 2022
How Patroni Addresses the Problem of the Logical Replication Slot Failover in a PostgreSQL Cluster
Failover of the logical replication slot has always been the pain point while using the logical replication in PostgreSQL. This [...]
January 11, 2022
Creating a Standby Cluster With the Percona Operator for PostgreSQL
A customer recently asked if our Percona Operator for PostgreSQL supports the deployment of a standby cluster, which they need [...]
December 20, 2021
PMM Now Supports Monitoring of PostgreSQL Instances Connecting With Any Database (Name)
The recent release of Percona Monitoring and Management 2.25.0 (PMM) includes a fix for bug PMM-6937: before that, PMM expected [...]
December 8, 2021
Percona Distribution for PostgreSQL Operator 1.1.0 – Notable Features
Percona in 2021 is heavily invested in making the PostgreSQL ecosystem better and contributing to it from different angles: We [...]
November 29, 2021
PostgreSQL 14 Database Monitoring and Logging Enhancements
PostgreSQL-14 was released in September 2021, and it contained many performance improvements and feature enhancements, including some features from a [...]
November 23, 2021
Upgrading PostGIS: A Proof Of Concept
My last blog introduced the issues one can face when upgrading PostGIS and PostgreSQL at the same time. The purpose [...]
November 18, 2021
Should I Create an Index on Foreign Keys in PostgreSQL?
Welcome to a weekly blog where I get to answer (like, really answer) some of the questions I’ve seen in [...]
November 10, 2021
Issues Upgrading PostGIS and PostgreSQL
PostGIS is arguably the best GIS implementation in the world. There may be other database technologies with GIS but the [...]