by Slava Sarzhan | Apr 1, 2026 | Cloud, Open Source, Percona Software, PostgreSQL
We are excited to announce Percona Operator for PostgreSQL 2.9.0! In this release, we bring significant improvements across database lifecycle management, security, backup/restore, and operational observability, making it easier than ever to run production PostgreSQL...
by Sergey Pronin | Mar 20, 2025 | Insight for DBAs, Monitoring, Percona Software
At Percona, we’re committed to providing you with the best database monitoring and management tools. With the release of Percona Monitoring and Management 3 (PMM 3), we’re now entering a critical phase in the lifecycle of PMM 2. We understand that PMM 2...
by Jobin Augustine | Feb 27, 2025 | PostgreSQL
This post was originally published in March 2019 and was updated in February 2025. Planning a PostgreSQL upgrade but not sold on pg_upgrade? You’re not alone. If pg_upgrade feels too risky or limiting, pg_dump and pg_restore give you something better: full control....
by Przemysław Malkowski | Oct 5, 2024 | Insight for DBAs, MySQL
This post was originally published in July 2023 and was updated in October 2024. Upgrading to MySQL version 8.0 is a hot topic since version 5.7 reached EOL. MySQL 5.7 EOL was at the end of October 2023. If you feel unprepared for the upgrade, consider post-EOL...
by Ivan Groenewold | Sep 26, 2024 | Insight for DBAs, MongoDB
Recently, one of our customers reported a problem after upgrading a sharded cluster from MongoDB 5.0 to 6.0. The upgrade of data-bearing nodes was fine, but in the final part of the process, where mongos routers needed to be restarted, the new version did not go well....
by Przemysław Malkowski | Jun 28, 2024 | Insight for DBAs, MySQL
Some of our Percona Support customers report performance degradation after a major MySQL upgrade, and there can be many different reasons for this. These days, the most common major upgrade is from MySQL 5.7 (which recently reached EOL) to 8.0, and I am going to...
by Avinash Vallarapu | May 13, 2019 | PostgreSQL
Usually, the PostgreSQL Community releases minor patches on the Thursday of the second week of the second month of each quarter. This can vary depending on the nature of the fixes. For example, if the fixes include critical fixes as a postgres community response to...
by Avinash Vallarapu | Apr 12, 2019 | PostgreSQL
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...
by Nickolay Ihalainen | Apr 9, 2019 | Insight for DBAs, PostgreSQL
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...
by Avinash Vallarapu | Apr 4, 2019 | PostgreSQL
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...
by Borys Belinsky | Nov 29, 2017 | MongoDB, MySQL, Open Source, Percona Events, Percona Software
Percona announces the release of Percona Monitoring and Management 1.5.1. This release contains fixes for bugs found after Percona Monitoring and Management 1.5.0 was released. Bug fixes PMM-1771: When upgrading PMM to 1.5.0 using Docker commands, PMM System...
by Borys Belinsky | Nov 28, 2017 | MongoDB, MySQL, Open Source, Percona Events, Percona Software
Percona announces the release of Percona Monitoring and Management 1.5.0 on November 28, 2017. This release focuses on the following features: Enhanced support for MySQL on Amazon RDS and Amazon Aurora – Dedicated Amazon Aurora dashboard offers maximum visibility into...
by Borys Belinsky | Nov 2, 2017 | MongoDB, MySQL, Open Source, Percona Events, Percona Software
Percona announces the release of Percona Monitoring and Management 1.4.1 on Thursday, November 2nd, 2017. This release contains fixes to bugs found after Percona Monitoring and Management 1.4.0 was released. It also introduces two important improvements. We replaced...
by Borys Belinsky | Oct 20, 2017 | MongoDB, MySQL, Open Source, Percona Events, Percona Software
Percona announces the release of Percona Monitoring and Management 1.4.0. This release introduces the support of external Prometheus exporters so that you can create dashboards in the Metrics monitor even for the monitoring services other than those provided with PMM...
by Borys Belinsky | Oct 11, 2017 | MongoDB, MySQL, Open Source, Percona Events, Percona Software
Percona announces the release of Percona Monitoring and Management 1.3.2. This release only contains bug fixes related to usability. For install and upgrade instructions, see Deploying Percona Monitoring and Management. Bug fixes PMM-1529: When the user selected...
by Borys Belinsky | Sep 29, 2017 | MongoDB, MySQL, Percona Events, Percona Software
Percona announces the release of Percona Monitoring and Management 1.3.1. This release only contains bug fixes related to usability. For install and upgrade instructions, see Deploying Percona Monitoring and Management. Bug fixes PMM-1271: In QAN, when the user...
by Borys Belinsky | Aug 23, 2017 | MongoDB, MySQL, Percona Events, Percona Software
Percona announces the release of Percona Monitoring and Management 1.2.2 on August 23, 2017. For install and upgrade instructions, see Deploying Percona Monitoring and Management. This release contains bug fixes related to performance and introduces various...
by Borys Belinsky | Aug 16, 2017 | MongoDB, MySQL, Percona Events, Percona Software
Percona announces the release of Percona Monitoring and Management 1.2.1 on August 16, 2017. For install and upgrade instructions, see Deploying Percona Monitoring and Management. This hotfix release improves memory consumption. Changes in PMM Server...
by Jervin Real | Jul 14, 2017 | Insight for DBAs, MySQL
In this blog post, I’ll look at a trick we use at Percona when upgrading to MySQL 5.7. I covered this subject (and others) in my webinar Learning MySQL 5.7 on Wednesday, July 19, 2017. On Upgrading to MySQL 5.7 We’ve been doing upgrades for quite a while...
by Tim Vaillancourt | Mar 10, 2017 | MongoDB, Percona Software
