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January 30, 2024
Master PostgreSQL Upgrades: The Ultimate Checklist
Are you planning to upgrade your PostgreSQL database but feeling overwhelmed by the complexity of the task? We have something [...]
January 29, 2024
Percona PG_TDE and Ubuntu: Please Test Transparent Data Encryption for PostgreSQL
PostgreSQL differs from certain other databases as it lacks a native solution to encrypt data on disk transparently. At Percona, [...]
January 26, 2024
Percona PG_TDE and Docker: Please Test Transparent Data Encryption for PostgreSQL
Securing your data can be a tough task. Unlike some other databases, PostgreSQL does not have a native solution to [...]
January 25, 2024
Decoding Sequential Scans in PostgreSQL
In every database product, sequential scans or full table scans are often resource consuming, so almost all the developers and [...]
January 9, 2024
Create an AI Expert With Open Source Tools and pgvector
2023 was the year of Artificial Intelligence (AI). A lot of companies are thinking about how they can improve user [...]
December 29, 2023
Human Factors Behind Incidents: Why Settings Like “idle_session_timeout” Can Be a Bad Idea
PostgreSQL 14 introduced the parameter [crayon-68d095aeae528406712125-i/], and, unfortunately, many DBAs jumped to start using it without understanding or by ignoring [...]
December 26, 2023
Grafana Dashboards: A PoC Implementing the PostgreSQL Extension pg_stat_monitor
This PoC demonstrates how to install and configure pg_stat_monitor in order to extract useful and actionable metrics from a PostgreSQL [...]
December 20, 2023
Using Huge Pages with PostgreSQL Running Inside Kubernetes
Huge pages make PostgreSQL faster; can we implement it in Kubernetes? Modern servers operate with terabytes of RAM, and by [...]
December 19, 2023
Using the Transparent Data Encryption Extension PG_TDE With PostgreSQL
PG_TDE (PostgreSQL Transparent Data Encryption) is an experimental transparent data encryption access method for PostgreSQL 16, available on GitHub as [...]
December 15, 2023
Exploring the Improved CREATEROLE Attribute for User Management in PostgreSQL 16
A database role can have a number of attributes that define its privileges and interact with the client authentication system.One [...]
December 14, 2023
How to Convert PostgreSQL Streaming Replication to Logical Replication
While a hallmark feature of PostgreSQL is streaming replication, sometimes data demands a more refined and adaptable replication approach to [...]
December 5, 2023
The Magic of PITR, pg_upgrade, and Logical Replication When Used Together for PostgreSQL Version Upgrades
Recently, I was reading a brilliant blog by Perconian David Gonzalez titled The 1-2-3 for PostgreSQL Logical Replication Using an [...]
December 1, 2023
Partitioning in PostgreSQL With pg_partman (Serial-Based & Trigger-Based)
The PostgreSQL partition manager pg_partman is an open source extension widely supported and actively maintained by the PostgreSQL community. pg_partman [...]
November 9, 2023
PostgreSQL Checkpoints, Buffers, and WAL Usage with Percona Monitoring and Management
In this blog post, we will discuss how to extend Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) to get PostgreSQL metrics on [...]
November 8, 2023
PostgreSQL 11 Will Soon Reach End of Life
According to the official PostgreSQL versioning policy page, the final PostgreSQL 11 release is expected by November 9, 2023. Since [...]
November 7, 2023
Book Review: PostgreSQL 14 Internals by Egor Rogov
The book PostgreSQL 14 Internals has been available in PDF format for quite a while, but recently, the ability to [...]
November 3, 2023
How To Scale a Single-Host PostgreSQL Database With Citus
When it comes to Citus, successfully building out and scaling a PostgreSQL cluster across multiple nodes and even across data [...]
November 2, 2023
How to Install and Run PostgreSQL Using Docker
This blog was originally published in Sept 2021 and was updated in November 2023. Following the series of blogs started [...]
November 1, 2023
Introducing Percona Builds for Serverless PostgreSQL
This blog was originally published in March of 2023 and updated in November of 2023. Recently, “serverless” has become a [...]
October 20, 2023
Scalable Solutions with Percona Distribution for PostgreSQL (Part 2): Using Citus
This blog post is part two of a multi-post series about using the Citus extension with Percona Distribution for PostgreSQL. [...]