by Sergey Pronin | Apr 20, 2023 | Cloud, Percona Software, PostgreSQL, Security
Data-at-rest encryption is essential for compliance with regulations that require the protection of sensitive data. Encryption can help organizations comply with regulations and avoid legal consequences and fines. It is also critical for securing sensitive data and...
by Naveed Shaikh | Apr 13, 2023 | Insight for DBAs, PostgreSQL
This blog was originally published in April 2023 and was updated in April 2024. PostgreSQL is a popular open source relational database management system that is widely used for storing and managing data. One of the common issues that can be encountered in PostgreSQL...
by Agustín | Apr 6, 2023 | Insight for DBAs, Monitoring, MySQL, Percona Software, PostgreSQL
In this blog post, we’ll check how to integrate Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) with Loki to be able to get not only metrics and queries from our database servers but also text-based information like logs. Loki is a log aggregation tool developed by...
by Abdul Sayeed | Apr 3, 2023 | Insight for DBAs, Percona Services, PostgreSQL
We all know that PostgreSQL 10 has reached end of support, so if you’re still running it, the time to upgrade is now. Staying on an unsupported version means no more security fixes or bug patches, which puts your applications and data at risk. There are a few...
by Pete Scott | Mar 30, 2023 | Insight for DBAs
The use of open source databases has increased steadily in recent years. Past trepidation — about perceived vulnerabilities and performance issues — has faded as decision makers realize what an “open source database” really is and what it offers. This comprehensive...
by Sonia Valeja | Mar 28, 2023 | Insight for DBAs, PostgreSQL
Our previous blogs discussed configuring and setting up backups using the pgBackRest solution. To briefly explain pgBackRest, it is an open source backup tool that takes FULL Backup, Incremental Backup, and Differential Backup for PostgreSQL databases. Repository...
by Vadim Tkachenko | Mar 21, 2023 | Insight for DBAs, PostgreSQL
Announcement I will be speaking at Percona Live 2023 about serverless PostgreSQL. Join us at this event if you are interested! Introduction Recently, Percona introduced Percona Builds for Neon (Introducing Percona Builds for Serverless PostgreSQL), which makes it easy...
by Vadim Tkachenko | Mar 13, 2023 | Insight for DBAs, PostgreSQL
Announcement I will be speaking at Percona Live 2023 about serverless PostgreSQL. Join us at this event if you are interested! Introduction Recently, Percona introduced Percona Builds for Neon (Introducing Percona Builds for Serverless PostgreSQL), which makes it easy...
by Naveed Shaikh | Feb 20, 2023 | Cloud, Insight for DBAs, PostgreSQL
Recently, one of our customers approached us with a unique challenge: they needed to migrate their entire PostgreSQL cluster from DigitalOcean’s Database as a Service (DBaaS) to a DigitalOcean Droplet. The reason for their migration from DBaaS to Droplets was to...
by Jan Wieremjewicz | Feb 14, 2023 | Insight for DBAs, PostgreSQL
The final PostgreSQL 10 release was published on November 10, 2022, according to the PostgreSQL versioning policy page. Please remember that the final PostgreSQL 11 release is planned for November 9, 2023. Following Percona’s Release Lifecycle policies, we follow and...
by David Stokes | Feb 13, 2023 | Insight for DBAs, PostgreSQL
Yes, MySQL DBAs can learn PostgreSQL! This series is for those who know MySQL and want to expand their knowledge, see how another database works, or are looking to expand their career horizons. In this episode we will look at transactions. Yes, MySQL with InnoDB does...
by Ibrar Ahmed | Feb 1, 2023 | Insight for DBAs, PostgreSQL
PostgreSQL is a fantastic database, but if you’re storing images, video, audio files, or other large data objects, you need to “toast” them to get optimal performance. This post will look at using The Oversized-Attribute Storage Technique (TOAST) to improve...
by Peter Zaitsev | Jan 30, 2023 | Insight for DBAs, PostgreSQL, Security
As Ibrar Ahmed noted in his blog post on Transparent Database Encryption (TDE). PostgreSQL is a surprising outlier when it comes to offering Transparent Database Encryption. Instead, it seems PostgreSQL Developers are of the opinion that encryption is a storage-level...
by Jobin Augustine | Jan 24, 2023 | Insight for DBAs, PostgreSQL
Attempts to compress PostgreSQL WAL at different levels have always been around since the beginning. Some of the built-in features (wal_compression) have been there since 2016, and almost all backup tools do the WAL compression before taking it to the backup...
by Ninad Shah | Jan 17, 2023 | Insight for DBAs, PostgreSQL
This blog is in continuation of my previous blog on the basic understanding of corruption with the subject line The Ultimate Guide to Database Corruption: Part 1 – An Overview. If you have not already gone through it, I encourage you to read it to understand...
by Jobin Augustine | Jan 4, 2023 | Insight for DBAs, PostgreSQL
Last time I blogged about the New WAL Archive Module/Library feature available in PostgreSQL 15, which is quite transformative in how WALs are archived today in PostgreSQL. PostgreSQL 15 has many more improvements related to WAL archiving, which is worth discussing....
by David Gonzalez | Dec 29, 2022 | Insight for DBAs, PostgreSQL
While working as a DBA, we perform many regular tasks, and one of them is upgrading our database systems. There are some techniques to perform a PostgreSQL database upgrade, such as data dump and import, logical replication, or in-site upgrade using pg_upgrade. The...
by Robert Bernier | Dec 23, 2022 | Insight for DBAs, Insight for Developers, PostgreSQL
One of the routine operations when administering PostgreSQL is periodic updates to the database system’s architecture. PostgreSQL does a good job of allowing one to update a schema, add types, functions, triggers, or alter a table by adding and removing columns...
by Sonia Valeja | Dec 23, 2022 | Insight for DBAs, Open Source, PostgreSQL
Patroni is one of the most used high availability (HA) solutions with the PostgreSQL database. It uses a Distributed Configuration Store (DCS) to keep the configuration in a centralized location available for all nodes making it an easy-to-use and reliable HA solution...
