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June 11, 2021
PostgreSQL HA with Patroni: Your Turn to Test Failure Scenarios
A couple of weeks ago, Jobin and I did a short presentation during Percona Live Online bearing a similar title [...]
June 2, 2021
postgres_fdw Enhancement in PostgreSQL 14
Note: PostgreSQL 14 has been released. Please visit PostgreSQL 14 – Performance, Security, Usability, and Observability for additional information. It’s [...]
May 27, 2021
New Features in PostgreSQL 14: Bulk Inserts for Foreign Data Wrappers
On September 30, 2021, PostgreSQL 14 was released. Need a primer? Umair Shahid recently put together a great overview, PostgreSQL [...]
May 26, 2021
Percona Operator for PostgreSQL Technical Preview Released
Percona is championing open source database software and we are committed to running our products on Kubernetes. We don’t only [...]
April 22, 2021
Demonstrating pg_rewind Using Linux Containers in PostgreSQL
These scripts demonstrate the command line interface, CLI, “pg_rewind” re-provisioning a formerly deprecated PRIMARY host, pg1, into a viable STANDBY. [...]
March 9, 2021
Webinar March 24: Introduction to pg_stat_monitor
Join Peter Zaitsev, Percona CEO, and Ibrar Ahmed, Percona Sr. Software Engineer, as they discuss pg_stat_monitor! If you’re tasked with [...]
March 8, 2021
Testing the Value of ScaleFlux Computational Storage Drive (CSD) for PostgreSQL
Some time ago we at Percona were approached by ScaleFlux Inc to benchmark their latest hardware appliance, the CSD 2000 [...]
February 26, 2021
Connection Queuing in pgBouncer: Is it a Magical Remedy?
Yes, this post is about connection queueing, not just pooling. Because “connection pooling” – pre-created connections as a pool – [...]
February 1, 2021
PostgreSQL Database Security: Authentication
Recently, I wrote an overview about what you need to know about PostgreSQL security. For this post, I want to [...]
January 28, 2021
How to Create PostgreSQL Custom Builds and Debian Packages
Some time ago, I required a specific version of PostgreSQL. After searching on all the repositories, I was unable to [...]
January 27, 2021
Deploying Any Version of Leading Open Source Databases for Tests and Experiments
I want to present a tool for running a specific version of open source databases in a single instance, replication [...]
January 22, 2021
PostgreSQL on ARM-based AWS EC2 Instances: Is It Any Good?
The expected growth of ARM processors in data centers has been a hot topic for discussion for quite some time, [...]
January 19, 2021
pg_stat_monitor: A New Way Of Looking At PostgreSQL Metrics
Enter pg_stat_monitor: this extension, created here at Percona, has been developed as an advanced replacement of pg_stat_statement, providing new capabilities [...]
January 14, 2021
Webinar January 28: Tuning PostgreSQL for High Performance and Optimization
PostgreSQL is one of the leading open-source databases, but, out of the box, the default PostgreSQL configuration is not tuned [...]
January 13, 2021
Percona 2020 Recap: Great Content and Software Releases
The Percona team provided the community with some excellent content and several new releases in 2020. I wanted to highlight [...]
January 11, 2021
A Snippet of Features: Reviewing PostgreSQL Version 13
This latest and greatest version of PostgreSQL, version 13, has been here since last summer and continues the tradition of [...]
January 7, 2021
PostgreSQL: DB-Engines.com’s Database of the Year
For the third time in the last five years, PostgreSQL took home the Database of the Year award from DB-Engines. [...]
December 1, 2020
How pgBackRest is Addressing Slow PostgreSQL WAL Archiving Using Asynchronous Feature
In one of my previous blog posts, Why PostgreSQL WAL Archival is Slow, I tried to explain three of the [...]
November 9, 2020
Deep Dive Into PostgreSQL Indexes – Free Course at Percona University Online
Percona University Online has released its second free course, “A Deep Dive Into PostgreSQL Indexes” by Ibrar Ahmed, Senior Software [...]
November 5, 2020
Deploying Percona Monitoring and Management 2 Without Access to the Internet
Normally it is quite easy to deploy Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) Server as a Docker container as per the [...]